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prosopagnosia
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Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, 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 2–2.5%.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Face blindness
- Medical condition (new).image
- Fusiform face area face recognition.jpg
- Medical condition (new).image_size
- 220px
- Medical condition (new).caption
- The fusiform face area, the part of the brain associated with facial recognition
- Medical condition (new).field
- Neurology, neuropsychology
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- 2–2.5%
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Research
1,277 papersvia PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Prosopagnosia.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- afflicts
- human
- prevalence
- 0.025
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C85031
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0010528
- health specialty
- neurology
- Commons category
- Prosopagnosia
- anatomical location
- face perception
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Physiology
- Treatment
- Implications
- Types
- Apperceptive
- Associative
- Developmental
- Cause
- Diagnosis
- Comorbidities
- Prognosis
- History
- Children
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, 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 2–2.5%.
A common misconception is that prosopagnosics see faces' contours and details as blurry or distorted. The condition is not characterized by warped visuals. Seeing distorted faces is a common symptom of prosopometamorphopsia, not prosopagnosia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prosopagnosia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.