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Anecdotal evidence suggests a relation between impaired spatial (navigational) processing and developmental prosopagnosia. To address this formally, we tested two aspects of topographic processing – that is, perception and memory of mountain landscapes shown from different viewpoints. Participants included nine individuals with developmental prosopagnosia and 18 matched controls.
At a group level, the TM performance level of DPs (M?=?7.67, 95% CI [6.20, 8.87]) was reliably poorer than that of controls (M?=?10.06, 95% CI [9.29, 10.75]), t(25)?=??3.47, p?=?.002, Cohen’s d (pooled SD)?=?1.36 (see Figure 2). Also, better performance was associated with faster reaction times in the control group, r(18)?=??.519, p?=?.027, 95% CI [?.767, ?.026].
It is debated whether face recognition and object recognition constitute separate cognitive domains [1]. Clarification of this issue can have important theoretical implications as face recognition is often used as a prime example of domain-specificity in mind and brain [2]. Domain-specificity entails the proposition that specialized cognitive functions (and brain areas) can and have evolved to handle very specific types of information; e.g., processing of faces and faces only.
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