face agnosia
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face blindness — n. Difficulty recognizing faces or telling faces apart. Also: face blindness. face blind adj. Example Citations: New findings from researchers at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that a surprising number of people are face blind, so bad at… … New words
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prosopagnosia — /prɒsoʊpægˈnoʊziə/ (say prosohpag nohzeeuh) noun a disorder characterised by the specific inability to recognise faces. {coined in 1947 by German neurologist, Joachim Bodamer, from Greek prosōpon face + agnosia lack of knowledge} …
Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition — Object recognition is the ability to perceive an object’s physical properties (such as shape, colour and texture) and apply semantic attributes to the object, which includes the understanding of its use, previous experience with the object and… … Wikipedia
Prosopagnosia — Infobox Disease Name = Prosopagnosia Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D020238 Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the… … Wikipedia
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prosopagnosia — Difficulty in recognizing familiar faces. [prosop + G. a priv. + gnosis, recognition] * * * pros·op·ag·no·sia .präs əp ag nō zhə n a form of visual agnosia characterized by an inability to recognize faces * * * proso·pag·no·sia (pros″o pag… … Medical dictionary
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