Exploring Remedial Training for Prosopagnosia in Children

发展性面孔失认症（DP）是一种神经发育疾病，有时被称为脸盲症，由于面部处理的视觉机制未能发展而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患者可能会经历严重的负面社会心理后果，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意义。目前对这种情况的研究还不充分，只有三篇关于试图改善CDP面部识别的研究发表。我的研究解决了这一差距，并将首次直接比较改善人脸识别的两种不同方法。较差的面部识别可能是由于难以区分面孔（知觉问题）或对面孔的记忆力差（或两者兼而有之）。因此，培训干预措施将针对这些不同的潜在缺陷；补救性训练旨在提高面部感知能力，补偿性训练旨在提高对面部的记忆能力。平衡处理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名正常发育的对照组。

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.