TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnosing prosopagnosia
T2 - Effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the cambridge face memory test and cambridge face perception test
AU - Bowles, Devin C.
AU - McKone, Elinor
AU - Dawel, Amy
AU - Duchaine, Bradley
AU - Palermo, Romina
AU - Schmalzl, Laura
AU - Rivolta, Davide
AU - Wilson, C. Ellie
AU - Yovel, Galit
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - The Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) and Cambridge Face Perception Test (CFPT) have provided the first theoretically strong clinical tests for prosopagnosia based on novel rather than famous faces. Here, we assess the extent to which norms for these tasks must take into account ageing, sex, and testing country. Data were from Australians aged 18 to 88 years (N = 240 for CFMT; 128 for CFPT) and young adult Israelis (N = 49 for CFMT). Participants were unselected for face recognition ability; most were university educated. The diagnosis cut-off for prosopagnosia (2 SDs poorer than mean) was affected by age, participant-stimulus ethnic match (within Caucasians), and sex for middle-aged and older adults on the CFPT. We also report internal reliability, correlation between face memory and face perception, correlations with intelligence-related measures, correlation with self-report, distribution shape for the CFMT, and prevalence of developmental prosopagnosia.
AB - The Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) and Cambridge Face Perception Test (CFPT) have provided the first theoretically strong clinical tests for prosopagnosia based on novel rather than famous faces. Here, we assess the extent to which norms for these tasks must take into account ageing, sex, and testing country. Data were from Australians aged 18 to 88 years (N = 240 for CFMT; 128 for CFPT) and young adult Israelis (N = 49 for CFMT). Participants were unselected for face recognition ability; most were university educated. The diagnosis cut-off for prosopagnosia (2 SDs poorer than mean) was affected by age, participant-stimulus ethnic match (within Caucasians), and sex for middle-aged and older adults on the CFPT. We also report internal reliability, correlation between face memory and face perception, correlations with intelligence-related measures, correlation with self-report, distribution shape for the CFMT, and prevalence of developmental prosopagnosia.
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U2 - 10.1080/02643290903343149
DO - 10.1080/02643290903343149
M3 - Article
C2 - 19921582
AN - SCOPUS:77949417909
SN - 0264-3294
VL - 26
SP - 423
EP - 455
JO - Cognitive Neuropsychology
JF - Cognitive Neuropsychology
IS - 5
ER -