Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London - Brad Duchaine

Dr. Bradley C. Duchaine Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square London WC1N 3AR +44 (0)20 7679 1005 +44 (0)20 7916 8517 b.duchaine@ucl.ac.uk

Educational Background
University of California-Santa Barbara	Ph.D. Psychology 2001
Marquette University	B.A. Psychology 1994

Publications Yardley, L., McDermott, L., Pisarski, S., Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (in press). Psychosocial consequences of developmental prosopagnosia: A problem of recognition. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. Duchaine, B. & Garrido, L. (in press). We're getting warmer: Characterizing the mechanisms of face recognition with acquired prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology. Todorov, A. & Duchaine, B. (in press). Reading trustworthiness in faces without recognizing faces. Cognitive Neuropsychology. Abbas, Z-A. & Duchaine, B. (in press). The role of holistic processing in judgments of facial attractiveness. Perception. Garrido, L., Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (2008). Face detection in normal and prosopagnosic individuals. Journal of Neuropsychology. 2: 219-240. PDF File Pitcher, D., Walsh, V., Yovel, G., & Duchaine, B. (2007). TMS evidence for the involvement of the right occipital face area in early face processing. Current Biology. 17: 1568-1573. PDF File Duchaine, B. (in press). Review of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. Quarterly Review of Biology. Duchaine, B., Germine, L., & Nakayama, K. (2007). Family resemblance: Ten family members. with prosopagnosia and within-class object agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 24: 419-430. PDF File Duchaine, B., Yovel, G., & Nakayama, K. (2007). No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience. 2: 104-113.PDF File McKone, E., Kanwisher, N., & Duchaine, B. (2007). Can generic expertise explain special processing for faces? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11: 8-15. PDF File Duchaine, B. & Yovel, G. (2007). Face recognition. In: The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. Duchaine, B & Nakayama, K. (2006). Developmental prosopagnosia: A window to content- specific face processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16: 166-173. PDF file Duchaine, B. (2006). Selective deficits in developmental cognitive neuropsychology: An introduction. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(5): 675-679. PDF file Duchaine, B., Yovel, G., Butterworth, E., & Nakayama, K. (2006). Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(5): 714-747. PDF file Yovel, G. & Duchaine, B. (2006). Specialized face perception mechanisms extract both part and spacing information: Evidence from developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(4): 580-593. PDF file Duchaine, B. & Nakayama, K. (2006). The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic subjects. Neuropsychologia, 44(4): 576-585. PDF file ***(For a copy of the test, email me) Steeves, J., Culham, J., Duchaine, B.,Cavina Pratesi, C., Valyear, K., Schindler, I., Humphrey, G.K., Milner, A.D., & Goodale, M.A. (2006). The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area. Neuropsychologia, 44(4): 594-609. PDF file Harris, A., Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (2005). Normal and abnormal face selectivity of the M170 response in developmental prosopagnosics. Neuropsychologia, 43(14): 2125-2136. PDF file Duchaine, B. (2005). Review of M. Farah's Visual Agnosia, 2nd Ed. Optometry & Vision Science, 82(5): 356-357. PDF file Duchaine, B. & Nakayama, K. (2005). Dissociations of face and object recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(2): 249-261. PDF file Duchaine, B., Dingle, K., Butterworth, E., & Nakayama, K. (2004). Normal greeble learning in a severe case of developmental prosopagnosia. Neuron, 43(4), 469-473. PDF file Duchaine, B. & Nakayama, K. (2004). Developmental prosopagnosia and the Benton Facial Recognition Test. Neurology, 62, 1219-1220. PDF file Duchaine, B., Nieminen-von Wendt, T., New, J., & Kulomaki, T. (2003). Dissociations of visual recognition in a developmental prosopagnosic: Evidence for separate developmental processes. Neurocase, 9(5), 380-389. PDF file Duchaine, B., Parker, H., & Nakayama, K. (2003). Normal emotion recognition in a> prosopagnosic. Perception, 32(7), 827-838. PDF file Duchaine, B. & Weidenfeld, A. (2003). An evaluation of two commonly used tests of unfamiliar face recognition. Neuropsychologia, 41(6), 713-720. PDF file Galaburda, A. & Duchaine, B. (2003). Developmental disorders of vision. Neurologic Clinics, 21(3), 687-707. PDF file Duchaine, B., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2001). Evolutionary psychology and the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11(2), 225-230. PDF file Duchaine, B. (2000). Developmental prosopagnosia with normal configural processing. Neuroreport, 11(1), 79-83. PDF file Fridlund, A.J. & Duchaine, B. (1995). Facial expressions of emotion and the delusion of the hermetic self. In: R. Harre & W.G. Parrott (Eds.), The Emotions. Sage: London.

Research Interests Face Perception & Prosopagnosia Adaptationist Approaches to the Brain Domain-specificity

Awards and Honors
NIH NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Harvard)	2001-2004
Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship (UCSB)	2000
Regents' Special Fellowship (UCSB)	1994-1998
Summa cum laude (Marquette)	1994

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