Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a condition in which people have a difficult time recognizing and identifying faces of all people including those they are familiar with. Research surrounding prosopagnosia aims to find differences in reaction time, familiarity and recognition compared to control participants. Shah, Guale, Gaigg, Bird and Cook were looking into the particular mechanisms that cause deficits within the population of people who suffer from developmental prosopagnosia. Specifically, Shah et. al. (2014), were attempting to identify if people with developmental prosopagnosia had trouble with perceptual maintenance, perceptual encoding, or both mechanisms. Similarly, Shah et. al. (2014) were looking to find if prosopagnosics exhibited short term facial memory. Results from the present study found that the participants with DP had difficulty with perceptual encoding. Implications for this study help identify the complexity of different ways in which disorders can alter the ability to recognize faces, and Shah et. …show more content…
Firstly, the introduction mentioned a lot about people who have autism spectrum disorder and their potential connection to developmental prosopagnosics in terms of facial recognition. However, the entire introduction talking about the parallelism of the two disorders seemed irrelevant given the fact that there was no mention of autism spectrum disorders after the introduction. Furthermore, it almost was confusing because it leads readers to believe that the researchers would also be looking at autism spectrum disorders. When looking at the information that the researchers provided it seems as though it may be difficult to replicate given that the information is limited. Although there were a few points that were a bit unnecessary and confusing, the overall organization was intuitive and followed a logical