Prosopagnosia
| Prosopagnosia | |
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| Other names | Face blindness |
| The fusiform face area, the part of the brain associated with facial recognition | |
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| Specialty | Neurology |
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. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, with a prevalence of 2.5%.[4]
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