ABSTRACT
The prevalence of congenital prosopagnosia (CP), its marked impact on the daily lives of those affected, as well as particular phenomenology associated with this visual deficit have served to propel it to the forefront in the public eye and under increased scrutiny by neuropsychologists. More generally, J. Geskin and M. Behrmann’s work points to desideratum of establishing a common, standard set of procedures and criteria in the diagnosis of CP and of associated deficits. Clarifying the representational basis of visual processing in CP and precise manner of its divergence from that found in healthy populations is key not only to confirming, but also to pinpointing a potential common source for face and object recognition deficits. Thus, the study of CP lends itself to multiple directions of investigation with plethora of neuroimaging and computational tools currently available. Ultimately, converging evidence from neurocomputational investigations of CP may be needed to settle—or, possibly, transcend—the current debate surrounding the specificity of face recognition deficits in CP.
