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Prosopagnosia without topographagnosia and object agnosia associated with a lesion confined to the right occipitotemporal region

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A patient is presented who developed prosopagnosia with a recent occipitotemporal infarct in the distribution of the right posterior cerebral artery. H ve topographical agnosia or object agnosia. He regained the ability to recognize faces of familiar persons, whereas he remained unable to identify faces of persons whom he met after the of persons whom he met after the disease onset. This case demonstrate that prosopagnosia may occur as a deficit of matching a perceived face to a memory store of the face, and that the failure to recognize unfamiliar faces may be due to the inability to form memory stores of new faces. These deficits can occur in association with a lesion confined to the right occipitotemporal region.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Iwate Medical University, 19-1 Uchimaru, 020, Morioka, Japan

    Hideo Tohgi, Katsumi Watanabe, Hiroaki Takahashi & Hisashi Yonezawa

  2. Nishina Memorial Cyclotron Center (Japan Radioistope Association) and Cyclotron Research Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

    Kentaro Hatano & Toshiaki Sasaki

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Tohgi, H., Watanabe, K., Takahashi, H. et al. Prosopagnosia without topographagnosia and object agnosia associated with a lesion confined to the right occipitotemporal region. J Neurol 241, 470–474 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00919707

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