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. 2018 Dec;71(12):2677-2679.
doi: 10.1177/1747021818765652. Epub 2018 May 7.

Adults have moderate-to-good insight into their face recognition ability: Further validation of the 20-item Prosopagnosia Index in a Portuguese sample

Paulo Ventura  1 , Lucy Anne Livingston  2 , Punit Shah  3
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Adults have moderate-to-good insight into their face recognition ability: Further validation of the 20-item Prosopagnosia Index in a Portuguese sample

Paulo Ventura et al. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2018 Dec.
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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
The significant correlations between PI20-Portuguese scores and performance on the Famous Faces Recognition Test (FFRT; r = –.39, p < .0001) and the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT; r = –.43, p < .0001).
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