Face imagery and its relation to perception and covert recognition in prosopagnosia

Abstract

Although anterior temporal cortex may be the site of facial memory stores, these data also support hypotheses that perceptual areas like the fusiform face area have parallel contributions to mental imagery. The data on covert recognition are consistent with a view that it is the residue of a partially damaged face-recognition network. Covert recognition may reflect the degree of damage across components of a network rather than mark a specific form of prosopagnosia or a dissociated pathway.