Table 1.
Suggested inclusion and exclusion criteria for the diagnosis of acquired and developmental prosopagnosia
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | Clarification questions |
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• 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.