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| Prosopagnosia | |||||
Prosopagnosia is a problem in recognizing faces. People with prosopagnosia have trouble recognizing friends, relatives, and even themselves, on the basis of the face alone. Thus in order to recognize familiar people, they often rely on other features such as voice, hairstyle, clothing items, gait, or on contextual information. This type of face blindness is called PROSOPAGNOSIA (Greek: prosopo = face, agnosia = lack of knowledge). Prosopagnosia may result from stroke or brain injury or can be present from early childhood (just as in the case of dyslexia) and can occur for no apparent reason at all. We refer to this condition as congenital prosopagnosia or developmental prosopagnosia. When this problem was first discovered, there were only a few cases reported. However, as research in this area develops, we are finding that this problem is much more common than previously thought, and may effect up to 2% of the population.
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