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Developmental disturbance of access to biographical information and people's names: A single-case study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2009

Martial van der Linden ,
Serge Brédart  and
Myriam Schweich
Martial van der Linden
Affiliation:
University of Liège, Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Psychology, Liège, Belgium
Serge Brédart
Affiliation:
University of Liège, Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Psychology, Liège, Belgium
Myriam Schweich
Affiliation:
University of Louvain, Cognitive Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Experimental Psychology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Abstract

The paper describes the case of a person (GB) without any clinical evidence of cerebral disease who showed a specific impairment in the retrieval of biographical information, including names, about famous people. This deficit appeared while GB scored normally in different long-term memory tasks, and in object naming tasks. Moreover, he showed no impairment in the structural encoding and the recognition of faces. His specific impairment is interpreted both in terms of Bruce and Young's (1986) functional model of person recognition and in terms of the more recent Burton et al. (1990) interactive activation version of the Bruce and Young model. (JINS, 1995, 7, 589–595.)

Keywords

Face processingProper namesDevelopmental disturbance
Type
Case Study
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 1 , Issue 6 , November 1995 , pp. 589 - 595
Copyright
Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 1995

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