Prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, is a disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including ones own face in a mirror or photograph, is impaired while other aspects of vision, such as recognizing objects, and other intellectual abilities remain intact. It was originally described in cases of acquired prosopagnosia following brain damage, but researchers have also identified a congenital or developmental form present from birth with no history of brain injury, with the two forms combined estimated to affect roughly two to two and a half percent of the population.
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Classification
Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterNeurocognitive Disorders 1 First Described Year Connections
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Source Prosopagnosia (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Prosopagnosia (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia Prosopagnosia lead paragraph: cognitive disorder of face perception, following acute brain damage or congenital
- Wikipedia Prosopagnosia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)
History
The condition was not named until the term prosopagnosia was used in 1947 by Joachim Bodamer, a German neurologist.
In Branch: Neuropsychology, Lead sentence
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.
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