Ricerc@Sapienza

Objective: To contribute to the limited body of eye movement (EM) studies of children and family members with
congenital prosopagnosia (CP), a task requiring a verbal response for the identification of personally familiar faces
was used for the 1st time. Method: EMs were recorded in a father and his son (both diagnosed with CP) and controls
(N 2). In the identification tasks they watched personally familiar faces and distracters and responded by saying

Here we report the assessment and treatment of a 6-year-old boy (L.G.) who was referred to us for congenital prosopagnosia (CP). We investigated his performance using a test battery and eye movement recordings pre- and post-training. L.G. showed deficits in recognising relatives and learning new faces, and misrecognition of unfamiliar people. Eye movement recordings showed that L.G. focused on the lower part of stimuli in naming tasks based on familiar or unfamiliar incomplete or complete faces.