Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. In extreme cases the ability to recognize a face as a face is impaired.
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- Prosopagnosia The condition of face blindness, from the perspective of a person who acquired it from a childhood injury.
- Wikipedia The free encyclopaedia distinguishes between apperceptive prosopagnosia, associative prosopagnosia, and developmental prosopagnosia.
- Face Blind Bill Choisser describes life with face blindness, and in particular the effect on sexuality and socializing.
- Face blindness not just skin deep CNN asks readers to “Imagine an entire day of seeing faces—friends, co-workers, even family—but not being able to retain those images in your mind”.
- Face Research at Macquarie University The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science is interested in how people perceive and recognize faces and facial expressions, so has been studying people with prosopagnosia and epilepsy.
- Prosopagnosia on The Hour The Hour on YouTube discusses prosopagnosia.
- Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London Asking prosopagnosiacs to contact the research team.
- No Face Like Home Lie, deny, sigh, these have been my social coping skills. Trying to figure out a better way to go through life as a prosopagnosic, aka, faceblind person.
- Face Blind Discussion Group Welcoming face blind people, family members, friends, researchers, counselors, faculty, and students.
- Barry Wainwright on being unable to recognise faces The Guardian interviews a man who can’t recognize himself, his wife or his seven children.
- Face blindness: Seeing but not seeing The BBC reports on two people with prosopagnosia.