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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 "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.
"Several studies have indicated that as many as 1 in 50 people may have developmental prosopagnosia," the NHS reports, meaning as many as 6.5 million people in the U.S. could have it, to varying ...
[1] Joachim Bodamer created the term prosopagnosia in 1947. Individuals with this disorder do not have the ability to overtly recognize faces, but discoveries have been made showing that people with this disorder have the ability to covertly recognize faces. There are two types of prosopagnosia, congenital and acquired.
Prosopagnosia is a condition marked by an inability to recognize faces. [26] When those with prosopagnosia view faces, the fusiform gyrus (a facial recognition area of the brain) activates differently to how it would in someone without the condition. [27]
The agnosiacs perceived the president's words without understanding them, and found them illogically structured, with one remarking that "he does not speak good prose." "The Disembodied Lady", a unique case of a woman losing her entire sense of proprioception (the sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighboring parts ...
[4] Within any given patient, a variety of symptoms can occur, and the impairment of ability is not only binary but can range in severity. For example, Patient SM is a prosopagnosic with a unilateral lesion to left extrastriate cortex due to an accident in his twenties who displays behavior similar to congenital prosopagnosia. [5]
The actor and producer explained how he’s “been pretty much hiding out” in his L.A. home for much of the pandemic — and how he’s used that time to quit smoking and drinking.