A combination of electrophysiological and behavioural data as objective measure of the impairment in congenital prosopagnosia

Recently a form of prosopagnosia has attracted attention that is not accompanied by any discernible brain lesion. Because subjects complain a lifelong impairment and because a familial clustering has been reported this condition has been termed congenital prosopagnosia (cPA) although sensu stricto „congenital“ requires the molecular establishment of a genetic basis. In the absence of such determination of this neuropsychological condition as an entity on its own it is necessary to aim at a delineation by neuroimaging and behavioural data. In 14 subjects with cPA and 19 normals (all screened by a specially develo…