Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 965-981 , September 2010

Acquired prosopagnosia abolishes the face inversion effect

  • Thomas Busigny

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education (PSP), Unité de Cognition et Développement (CODE), Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
    • ,
  • Bruno Rossion

Received 22 October 2008 ,Revised 6 July 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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