PSYCH 2E03 Lecture Notes - Capgras Delusion, Electrodermal Activity, Prosopagnosia
12 Jun 2013
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Patients with capgras delusion may even misinterpret their own face, their personal belongings etc. as of someone else imposter . Cover sensory responses galvanic skin responses: principle and application record skin-conductance (determined by sweatiness) As parameter of emotional responsiveness while presenting faces. What happens to these covert signs" in capgras agnosia and in prosopagnosia: they are oiir or absent in capgras. Delusion about the face of significant person or even ones own face. That is my wide"s duplicate they are duplicates, triplicates of my children. But not my house : going through back door. Capgras patients show reduced skin conductance response to faces. Greater ratio in normal controls and psychiatric controls capgras patients don"t have significant differences between familiar and unfamiliar faces. Covert and overt responses in prosopagnosia and capgras two routes to face perception and visual recognition: overt (conscious) process and covert (unconscious) process (quicker response than overt process)
