prosopagnosia
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- noun
- /ˌprɒsəpæɡˈnoʊziə/
- Specialized
- After suffering a brain injury, she was diagnosed with prosopagnosia, making it difficult for her to identify faces.
- visual recognition
- prosopagnosia patients
Examples
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People with prosopagnosia may struggle to recognize even well-known faces, such as those of celebrities.
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Due to his prosopagnosia, he often failed to recognize friends and family in social situations.
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However, confirmed cases of prosopagnosia are extremely rare.
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What you are experiencing are symptoms of prosopagnosia.
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Differences in the processing of global and local information have also been demonstrated in patients with prosopagnosia.
Academic text (1997) -
In the domain of face recognition, there is a well-known disorder called "prosopagnosia," in which patients fail to recognize faces.
Academic text (2009) -
For example, he has prosopagnosia, a condition also known as "face blindness" in which faces are perpetually unrecognizable (including his own).
Blog text (5) -
I read a lot of Oliver Sacks, the neurologist, and I was reading a book called The Mind's Eye, about prosopagnosia, which is facial blindness, where people can't recognize their loved ones.
Blog text (33) -
In prosopagnosia, then, overt recognition of familiar faces is profoundly impaired, whereas autonomic responses to the same faces can be relatively spared.
Academic text (1999)
Surface Forms
Morphology
prosopagnosia = prosop + agnosia
The components 'prosop' and 'agnosia' are not recognizable as standalone English morphemes, making the word opaque to learners.
Etymology
Prosopagnosia comes from Greek parts: prosop- meaning 'face' and -agnosia made from a- 'not' and gnosis 'knowledge', which is like the English word 'know'. So prosopagnosia literally means 'not knowing faces', which explains why people with it cannot recognize faces.