What's Face Blindness

Prosopagnosia, [3] also known as face blindness, [4] 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.

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Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a brain condition where you can’t recognize faces or facial expressions. Learn more about what causes it.

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Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, refers to a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize familiar faces. There are two types of face blindness: acquired and developmental. Acquired face blindness is the result of various pathologies that cause brain damage, whereas developmental, or congenital, prosopagnosia presents at birth and without any obvious brain lesions. Those ...

Prosopagnosia, known as face blindness, is a neurological condition that makes it challenging to recognize faces, even those of loved ones. This page explores its causes and impact.

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Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we’ve never met or make us fail to recognize those we have, has been previously estimated to affect between 2 and 2.5 percent of people in the world. Now, a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the VA Boston Healthcare System is providing fresh insights into the disorder, suggesting ...

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is an impairment in the recognition of facial identity. Prosopagnosics often have difficulty recognizing family members, close friends, and even themselves.

Face blindness, also known as prosopagnosia, is a disorder in which a person can’t recognize faces.

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Learn more about the symptoms and treatment options for prosopagnosia (face blindness), the inability to recognize faces.