Processing deficits for familiar and novel faces in patients with left posterior fusiform lesions

Pure alexia (PA) arises from damage to the left posterior fusiform gyrus (pFG) and the striking reading disorder that defines this condition has meant that such patients are often cited as evidence for the specialisation of this region to processing of written words. There is, however, an alternativ...

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Main Authors: Roberts, Daniel J., Lambon Ralph, Matthew A., Kim, Esther, Tainturier, Marie-Josephe, Beeson, Pelagie M., Rapcsak, Steven Z., Woollams, Anna M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Masson 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643682/