Prosopagnosia
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Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the population.
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See also
- Cognitive neuropsychology
- Recognition of human individuals
- Thatcher effect
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Amygdala
- Faces in the Crowd (film)
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