Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Pages 598-607 , May 2011

A new selective developmental deficit: Impaired object recognition with normal face recognition

  • Laura Germine

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 810 William James Hall, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
    • ,
  • Nathan Cashdollar

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • ,
  • Emrah Düzel

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Bradley Duchaine

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

Received 12 October 2009 ,Revised 20 April 2010 ,Accepted 22 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.04.009

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