Prosopagnosia

What have studies of visual object agnosia and prosopagnosia contributed to our understanding of visual recognition? A lot of what we understand about visual recognition comes from investigating cases where the processes involved go wrong. The absence of a cognitive ability can provide is with the ability to look at where things differ in these individuals from those with normal levels of processing. In the case of visual recognition, we can look at different forms of visual agnosias in order to tell us about how these recognition processes work, as well as whether there are specific brain areas where it occurs. Visual object agnosia refers to a deficit in one’s ability to recognise visually presented objects, regardless of whether they are familiar or novel. Prosopagnosia is similar, however refers to the deficit in ones ability to recognise faces, including those of very familiar individuals such as spouses, family members and famous celebrities. Both of these impairments cannot be explained by deficits in visual acuity, language skills, memory…

Prosopagnosia, commonly known as “facial blindness”, is the inability to recognize identity from faces. This impairment can either be acquired following a brain injury, called acquired prosopagnosia, or developmental in nature, in which case the individuals have never developed an ability to recognize faces, also known as congenital prosopagnosia. Being able to recognize faces rapidly and accurately is crucial for distinguishing family members, friends, and colleagues from strangers and to even…

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is the inability to recognize faces (Biotti & Cook, 2016). DP can affect one in every 50 individuals, both men and women (Biotti & Cook, 2016). DP is caused in the temporal lobe in a specific area known as the fusiform face area. The fusiform face area is the ability for an individual’s brain to be able to help recognize different faces (Biotti & Cook, 2016). One thing that is interesting about this topic is, a person with DP is not able to recognize faces but…

Introduction Developmental prosopagnosia is a condition, which a child has difficulty in recognizing faces due to a failure to develop necessary neural mechanisms for processing faces. Some children even fail to recognize faces of family and friends, and unable to recognize their own face in the mirror. This causes a lot of stress on a child in school and in social situations. It can also be dangerous if a child is separated from their caregiver if they are unable to relocate them, or may…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

and it deals with the visual phenomenon known as prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is defined as difficulty in recognizing the faces of familiar people (Goldstein, 2010). It is derived from two Greek words. Prosopon meaning face and agnosia meaning not knowing (Prosopagnosia Research Centers). Your imagination does not have to travel to far to think about the real life implications this could have on you or someone you love. That is precisely what made me want to find literature on this topic. My…

When I was a lot younger I was diagnosed with an illness called prosopagnosia, meaning that I am incapable of recognising faces. No matter how many times I have seen someone it is impossible to instantly tell who they are and it gets no easier. It is not something that I can cure and I cannot explain the frustration that I face every minute of every day. Imagine walking into a room full of strangers but everyone else already knows each other, this is what my life is like, will always be and…

The way Faces in the Crowd depicts Prosopagnosia shows how a woman learns to live with a change in her lifestyle while also being chased by a serial killer after being attacked and receiving a head injury that caused her to get Prosopagnosia. When she first wakes up in the hospital and cannot recognize her friends or her boyfriend, it seems like a simple case of confusion from receiving the head injury, but later on when you see how people’s faces change whenever she stops looking at them it…

Introduction Prosopagnosia is a cognitive disorder in which facial recognition is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing remains intact (Gruter 2008). This disorder implies that the brain processes visual stimuli differently. Using the Memory Interference Test (MIT) aggregated database, students can formulate hypotheses based on demographics by studying the number of correct responses and mean reaction time by observing pre-calculated students t-test. This particular assessment…

Chuck Close is one amazing artist who has faced many disabilities on his life. His school thought he was just lazy, but as soon as he put the paintbrush in his hand, it all turned around. He was born in 1940, growing up he suffered from dyslexia and Prosopagnosia. Those disabilities did not help him in school as for it showed the teachers that he was lazy. He did want to learn though, and art helped him get through it. When Close was almost fifty years of age, he suffered a severe spinal…