“Agnosia is the loss of ability to interpret sensory input.” (Unknown, n.d.) Prosopagnosia is a type of visual Agnosia that results in “a severe deficit in facial recognition.” (Bate, n.d.) By origin the word prosopagnosia is Greek and when split into prosop and agnosia it literally means ‘face’ and ‘without knowledge’ respectively. People suffering from this illness may have a difficulty in recognizing familiar faces. In other cases, the patients will be unable to differentiate between unknown faces some not even having the ability to discriminate between a face and an object. (NINDS, 2007) In addition, some individuals suffering from advanced prosopagnosia cannot even identify their own face in the mirror. (Humphreys,
