Reduplication of Visual Stimuli

Investigation of P.T., a man who experienced reduplicative delusions, revealed significant impairments on tests of recognition memory for faces and understanding of emotional facial expressions. On formal tests of his recognition abilities, P.T. showed reduplication to familiar faces, buildings, and...

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Main Authors: A. W. Young, D. J. Hellawell, S. Wright, H. D. Ellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1994-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1994-73-405
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Summary:Investigation of P.T., a man who experienced reduplicative delusions, revealed significant impairments on tests of recognition memory for faces and understanding of emotional facial expressions. On formal tests of his recognition abilities, P.T. showed reduplication to familiar faces, buildings, and written names, but not to familiar voices. Reduplication may therefore have been a genuinely visual problem in P.T.'s case, since it was not found to auditory stimuli. This is consistent with hypotheses which propose that the basis of reduplication can lie in part in malfunction of the visual system.
ISSN:0953-4180
1875-8584