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We report Developmental Landmark Agnosia (DLA) in a 6-year-old boy (L.G.) who was referred to
us for congenital prosopagnosia (see Pizzamiglio et al., 2017, in which both testing and
rehabilitation of Congenital Prosopagnosia are reported). We investigated his performance using a
neuropsychological battery and eye movement recordings. The assessment showed the presence
of deficits in recognizing familiar places (along with Congenital Prosopagnosia), but not common

The role of emotional landmarks in navigation has been scarcely studied. Previous findings
showed that valence and arousal of landmarks increase landmark’s salience and improve performance
in navigational memory tasks. However, no study has directly explored the interplay between valence
and arousal of emotionally laden landmarks in embodied and not-embodied navigational tasks.
At the aim, 115 college students have been subdivided in five groups according to the landmarks

The investigation of the role of emotional landmarks on human navigation has been
almost totally neglected in psychological research. Therefore, the extent to which
positive and negative emotional landmarks affect topographical memory as compared
to neutral emotional landmark was explored. Positive, negative and neutral affectladen
images were selected as landmarks from the International Affective Picture
System (IAPS) Inventory. The Walking Corsi test (WalCT) was used in order to test the