Exploring Remedial Training for Prosopagnosia in Children

发育性面孔失认症(DP)是一种神经发育状况，有时被称为面盲症，由于面孔加工的视觉机制未能发育，导致严重的面孔识别问题。它发生在没有视力障碍或脑损伤的情况下。患有DP的人可能会经历深刻的负面心理社会后果，包括焦虑、尴尬和社会孤立。患有DP(CDP)的儿童无法识别照顾者也具有重要的安全影响。这种情况还没有得到充分的研究，只有三项已发表的研究试图改善CDP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。面孔识别不佳可能是因为难以区分面孔(一种知觉问题)，或者是因为对面孔的记忆力不佳(或者两者兼而有之)。因此，培训干预措施将针对这些不同的潜在缺陷；补救性培训旨在改善面孔感知，补偿性培训旨在利用变通办法改善对面孔的记忆。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7-16岁的CDP和12名典型的发育中的对照组。

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.