Abstract
We describe a patient with a selective impairment in naming and pointing to emotional facial expressions following damage to the right temporal lobe. His language functions were otherwise intact, and he performed well on a variety of perceptual and associative emotional facial tasks. We propose that his inability to match facial expressions with their names was induced by a disconnection between visual semantic and verbal semantic representations for facial emotions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1031-1041 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Neuropsychologia |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1989 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Behavioral Neuroscience