Face recognition in developmental dyslexia: evidence for dissociation between faces and words
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Documents
- Fulltext
Accepted author manuscript, 663 KB, PDF document
ABSTRACT Developmental dyslexia is primarily a reading disorder, but recent studies have indicated that face processing problems may also be present. Using a case-series approach, we tested face recognition and visual word recognition in 24 high school students diagnosed with developmental dyslexia. Contrary to previous findings, no face recognition problems were found on the group-level. Rather, a significant classical dissociation with impaired word reading and normal face recognition was demonstrated on a group-level and for six individuals with developmental dyslexia. However, four individuals with dyslexia did show face recognition problems. Thus, while problems in face recognition can be present in developmental dyslexia, the dissociation strongly suggests that face recognition can also be preserved. Combined with previously reported dissociations between face and word recognition in developmental prosopagnosia, this constitutes a double dissociation.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Journal | Cognitive Neuropsychology |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 107-115 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 0264-3294 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Face recognition, word recognition, reading, developmental dyslexia, CFMT, lexical decision test
Research areas
Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk
No data available
ID: 252116410