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Kinder- und Jugendmedizin 2013; 13(03): 170-178
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1629339
Entwicklungsneurologie
Schattauer GmbH

Entwicklung und Entwicklungs-störungen der Gesichtswahrnehmung im Kindes- und Jugendalter

Face recognition in children and adolescents – development and impairments
A. Merkenschlager
1   Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Kinder und Jugendliche Leipzig
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H. M. Straßburg
2   Gerbrunn, ehemals Universitäts-Kinderklinik Würzburg
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Eingereicht am:08 April 2013

angenommen am:12 April 2013

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31 January 2018 (online)

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Zusammenfassung

Das Erkennen von Gesichtern hat zentrale Bedeutung für die nonverbale Kommunikation. Dieser Wahrnehmungsleistung liegen angeborene Mechanismen zugrunde, die durch Erfahrung – wahrscheinlich lebenslang – moduliert werden. Zahlreiche Störungsmöglichkeiten der Gesichtserkennung in Neurologie und Psychiatrie werden diskutiert. Es wird angenommen, dass eine Beeinträchtigung dieser Leistung Auswirkungen auf die alltägliche interpersonelle Interaktion hat. Daher sollte die Prüfung der fazialen Perzeptionsleistung Gegenstand neuropsychologischer Untersuchungen bei entwicklungsauffälligen Kindern werden, insbesondere wenn Interaktions- und Kommunikationsstörungen dominieren.

Summary

Face recognition has a profound impact on non-verbal communication. This perceptive competence is based on inherited brain mechanisms and is modulated presumably by a life-long learning process. Many different disturbances in the proficiency of face recognition occurring in neurological and psychiatric disorders are discussed. There is some evidence that an impairment in these basic perceptual processes have consequences for everyday life-interaction. The authors suggest testing of facial perception as an integral part of neuropsychological workup for developmental disorders, especially in disturbance of social interaction and communication.

Schlüsselwörter

Gesichtserkennung - Prosopagnosie - soziale Kognition - Entwicklung - Wahrnehmungs-psychologie - psychologische Tests

Keywords

Face recognition - prosopagnosia - social cognition - development - psychology of perception - psychological tests
 

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