They find it tricky to recognise faces and can therefore struggle to socially interact with those around them. People with this type of “face blindness” may not realise they have it until they reach ...

People with acquired prosopagnosia recognize few faces, a condition known also as "face blindness." These are people who have suffered brain damage that interferes with their ability to recognize ...

Terms like colour blindness and selective blindness are fairly common, but have you ever heard of face blindness? Also known as prosopagnosia, this disorder prevents individuals from identifying ...

Science writer Sadie Dingfelder always knew she was different but never understood how or why until one day she mistook a stranger for her husband in a grocery store. She had been teasing her husband ...

Her condition, face blindness, has had a major effect on her life but has also given her a sense of purpose as an artist - to make self-portraits of the face she cannot picture in her mind.

Listen: Dr Hayley Ryder, a lecturer at the Open University in Milton Keynes, talks about living with facial blindness What is face blindness and how many people are affected by it? Prosopagnosia ...

And conversely, people with face blindness not only struggle with faces but may also have difficulties processing other types of visual information. Curiously, however, super-recognizer abilities ...

shown in blue outline), which is known to be associated with face blindness. The other 15 lesions did not intersect with the FFA. However, all 44 lesions were in areas that were functionally ...

Prolonged symptoms of COVID-19 may be associated with difficulty recognising faces, a little-known condition called face blindness, and navigational problems, according to a study. Previous ...