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Preferred term

prosopagnosia

Definition(s)

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact. (Wikipedia)

Broader concept(s)

visual agnosia

In other languages

prosopagnosie

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