Exploring Remedial Training for Prosopagnosia in Children

探索儿童面容失认症的治疗训练

• 批准号: 2473616
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Stirling
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2473616
• 关键词: Exploring; Remedial; Training; Prosopagnosia; Children

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition, sometimes called face blindness, that results in severe face recognition problems due to the visual mechanisms for face processing having failed to develop. It occurs in the absence of visual impairment or brain injury. Individuals with DP can experience profound negative psychosocial consequences including anxiety, embarrassment and social isolation. The inability of children with DP (CDP) to recognise caregivers also has important safety implications. The condition is under-researched with only three published studies of attempts to improve face recognition in CDP. My research addresses this gap and will, for the first time, directly compare two different approaches to improving face recognition. Poor face recognition might result from difficulty in telling faces apart (a perceptual problem) or from poor memory for faces (or both). Training interventions will therefore target these different underlying deficits; remedial training aims to improve face perception and compensatory training aims to improve memory for faces using work arounds. Counterbalancing treatment order will allow comparison of their relative effectiveness. Participants will be twelve CDP aged 7-16 and twelve typically developing controls.

发育性面容失认症（DP）是一种神经发育性疾病，有时被称为脸盲，由于面部处理的视觉机制未能发展，导致严重的面部识别问题。它发生在没有视觉障碍或脑损伤的情况下。DP患者可能会经历深刻的负面心理社会后果，包括焦虑，尴尬和社交孤立。患有DP（CDP）的儿童无法识别照顾者也具有重要的安全性影响。这种情况研究不足，只有三项已发表的研究试图改善CDP中的人脸识别。我的研究解决了这一差距，并将首次直接比较两种不同的改善人脸识别的方法。面部识别能力差可能是由于难以区分面部（感知问题）或对面部记忆不佳（或两者兼而有之）。因此，训练干预措施将针对这些不同的潜在缺陷;补救训练旨在改善面部感知，补偿训练旨在使用工作区改善对面部的记忆。平衡治疗顺序将允许比较它们的相对有效性。参与者将是12名年龄在7-16岁之间的CDP和12名典型的发展对照。