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Face recognition improvements in adults and children with face recognition difficulties
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Supplementary material is available at Brain Communications online ; Copyrighted © The Author(s) 2022. While there have been decades of clinical and theoretical interest in developmental and acquired face recognition difficulties, very little work has examined their remediation. Here, we report two studies that examined the efficacy of an existing face training programme in improving face-processing skills in adults and children with developmental face recognition impairments. The programme has only been trialled in typical children to date, where two weeks of perceptual training (modelled on an adapted version of the popular family game Guess Who?) resulted in face-specific improvements for memory but not perception after two weeks of training. In Study 1, we performed a randomised, parallel-groups placebo-controlled trial of the same programme in 20 adults with a pre-existing diagnosis of developmental prosopagnosia. Assessment tasks were administered immediately before and after training, and two weeks later. Face-specific gains in memory (but not perception) were observed in the experimental group and were greatest in those with the poorest face recognition skills at entry. These gains persisted two weeks after training ceased. In Study 2, a case-series approach was used to administer the experimental version of the training programme to four children who presented with difficulties in face recognition. Improvements in face memory were observed in three of the participants; while one also improved at face perception, there was mixed evidence for the facespecificity of these gains. Together, these findings suggest plasticity in the human face recognition system through to at least mid-adulthood, and also pave the way for longer-term implementations of the face training programme that will likely elicit greater gains in both adults and children. ; Leverhulme Research Fellowship (RF-2020-105).
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Keyword:
face perception; face recognition; prosopagnosia; remediation; training
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac068
https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/24310
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Birthweight predicts individual differences in adult face recognition ability
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Applied Screening Tests for the Detection of Superior Face Recognition
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Super-recognition in development: A case study of an adolescent with extraordinary face recognition skills
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Movement cues aid face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia.
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Eye-movement strategies in developmental prosopagnosia and "super" face recognition.
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Prevalence of face recognition deficits in middle childhood.
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Movement cues aid face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia
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