inability to recognise faces, caused by damage of the non-dominant temporal lobe
The inability to recognize faces, usually produced by lesions in the parietal lobes.
people cannot consciously recognize familiar faces, although they react physiologically as if they do recognize the person. They sweat more, for instance. The disorder is an indicator that the brain has two ways of identification: the conscious and the unconscious. Prosopagnosia seems to damage the conscious pathway, although researchers can only guess at what's actually going on. Click here for a first-person account.
Technical term for face blindness
An impairment in the ability to visually recognize individual faces.
an inability to recognize faces of familiar people
the inability to recognize faces, which is typically caused by damage to a region of the temporal and occipital lobes. (91)
The inability to categorize or recognize faces.
A loss in the ability to recognize faces that results from brain damage.
Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize objects may be relatively intact.