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Prosopagnosia or face blindness can prevent a person from recognizing even commonly seen faces.

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Comment 1. Face blind teacher
Apr 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM Report comment

Prosopagnosia is not 'usually' the result of brain damage - at least if you mean head injury, brain surgery or stroke - these causes are rare compared with developmental.

Apperceptive and associative are different in degree and severity.

Developmental is not a third version of these - if you want a 'pair' to that then it would be genetic, depending on whether it's inherited (about 25-30% of cases)or develops through damage in utero or in the early months, which is very difficult to determine as an adult.

Comment 2. Anne Mills
Apr 21, 2008 at 02:26 PM Report comment

I agree with the Face blind teachers' comments. Probably 2 in every 100 people have some degree of Prosopagnosia, with no other neurological symptom.

The picture accompanying the article is misleading also. Most of us see faces perfectly well. We are simply not able to identify faces we have seen before.

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