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prosopagnosia

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prosopagnosia [‚präs·ō·pag′nōzh·yə]
(psychology)
The inability to recognize familiar faces.
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Studies conducted in the past have shown that about 2 per cent of the population suffers from "face-blindness", or prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by great difficulty in recognizing faces.
'Super-recognizers' who never forget a face do exist by Asian News International
I can now say that disorders like prosopagnosia (the failure to recognize faces) or simultanagnosia (the failure to recognize individual objects in a complex environment) are visual dysfunctions, rather than simple visual impairments.
The functional classification of brain damage--related vision loss by Colenbrander, August / Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
Prosopagnosia is a condition informally known as face blindness.
Are you a prosopagnosic? by Palaestra
 
 
 
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