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. 2016 Sep 26;8:165–175. doi: 10.2147/EB.S92838

Table 1.

Suggested inclusion and exclusion criteria for the diagnosis of acquired and developmental prosopagnosia

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria Clarification questions
• Difficulty with faces evident in everyday life (PI20)
• Impairment on at least two measures of face familiarity (CFMT)
• Confirmation of lesion by MRI or CT scan (AP cases only)
• Low-level visual impairment that could otherwise explain prosopagnosia
• General visual agnosia
• General memory impairment
• Neuropsychological disorders associated with face recognition impairment
• Visible lesion on MRI (DP cases only)
• Does the individual have associative or apperceptive subtype? (Cambridge Face Perception Test or Glasgow Face Matching Test)
• Is the disorder prosopagnosia or a multimodal person recognition disorder? (Tests of name and voice familiarity)

Note: Suggested tests for adults are indicated in parentheses, and brackets indicate criteria specific to either acquired prosopagnosia (AP) or developmental prosopagnosia (DP).

Abbreviations: CFMT, Cambridge Face Memory Test; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; CT, computed tomography.