Moscovitch and Moscovitch (2000) compared prosopagnosic patients and object-agnosic patients.What did they find?
A)There were no differences between the two patient types.
B)Patients with object agnosia were normal at face recognition but showed deficits in object recognition.Prosopagnosic patients showed deficits in facial recognition but not object recognition.
C)Object-agnosic patients show deficits in all stimuli, whereas the prosopagnosic agnostic patients showed deficits only in recognizing faces and had normal responses to all other stimuli.
D)The prosopagnosic agnostic patients recovered more quickly than did the object-agnosic patients.

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Moscovitch and Moscovitch (2000) found that patients with object agnosia were normal at face recognition but showed deficits in object recognition. Prosopagnosic patients showed deficits in facial recognition but not object recognition. Therefore, there were significant differences between the two patient types.

Moscovitch and Moscovitch (2000) Compared Prosopagnosic Patients and Object-Agnosic Patients