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prosopagnosia
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prosopagnosia /proso·pag·no·sia/ (-pag-no´se-ah) inability to recognize faces due to damage to the underside of both occipital lobes.
pros·o·pag·no·sia (prs-pg-nzh, -z-)
n.
An inability or difficulty in recognizing familiar faces; it may be congenital or result from injury or disease of the brain.
prosopagnosia [pros″o-pag-no´se-ah]
inability to recognize the faces of other people or one's own features in a mirror, due to damage to the underside of both occipital lobes.
prosopagnosia 
Inability to recognize faces. It may be due to a lesion in one area of the inferotemporal (IT) cortex. See agnosia.
prosopagnosia
Neurology Inability to recognize familiar faces unexplained by defective visual acuity or ↓ consciousness or alertness
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This is the first time that a study has shown that others excel in face recognition, indicating that the trait could be on a spectrum, with prosopagnosics on the low end and super-recognizers at the high end.
'Super-recognizers' who never forget a face do exist by Asian News International
Scientists are still trying to discover why the area of the brain that processes faces has not developed in prosopagnosics.
EVERYONE looks the same to me; I ignore my friends in the street and ... by The Mirror (London, England)
In mild forms, prosopagnosics learn to memorize a limited number of faces--rather like being able to distinguish one telephone pole or rock from another.
Are you a prosopagnosic? by Palaestra
 
 
 
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