Author ' s personal copy Prosopagnosia

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  • Martha J Farah
  • Todd E Feinberg
چکیده

Prosopagnosia is a visual perceptual disorder defined by the inability to recognize faces in the absence of impairments to lower-level vision or intellect. Prosopagnosia can be so severe that even close friends and family members will not be recognized. Indeed, the failure of recognition often extends to the patient’s own face. One such example was related by a prosopagnosic man who said, ‘‘I was at a conference and I saw this other person walking. I thought it was probably someone I knew and so I smiled at (him) and started to greet (him), only to realize then that it was my own face and I was looking at a mirrored wall’’ (LH).

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تاریخ انتشار 2014