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Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.
Prosopagnosia is a disorder which causes the inability to use overt facial recognition. [9] While people suffering from prosopagnosia often cannot identify whose face they are looking at they usually show signs of covert recognition. This can be seen in their ability to accurately guess information during forced choice tasks. [2]
Prosopagnosia is a "selective impairment in the ability to recognize individual faces due to brain damage of the visual cortex." [16] Essentially, this neurological deficit impairs an individual's ability to recognize faces, even faces of those who should be familiar, such as family members. This is the result of damage to the visual cortex.
Image credits: astarisaslave #8. TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living.
A specific form of associative visual agnosia is known as prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces. For example, these individuals have difficulty recognizing friends, family and coworkers. [22] However, individuals with prosopagnosia can recognize all other types of visual stimuli. [23]
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The fusiform gyrus, also known as the lateral occipitotemporal gyrus, [1] [2] is part of the temporal lobe and occipital lobe in Brodmann area 37. [3] The fusiform gyrus is located between the lingual gyrus and parahippocampal gyrus above, and the inferior temporal gyrus below. [4]
Overall, female children born in 2019 in these places have a 5.1% chance of reaching 100 years of age, the study said. There is only a 1.8% chance for males. “We waited 30 years to test our ...