face blindness
Can't identify faces
Face blindness is a neurological condition in which a person cannot recognize faces, even of people they know well.
Someone with face blindness might fail to identify family members, friends, or their own reflection, relying instead on voice, gait, or other cues.
The clinical term is prosopagnosia.
The condition can be present from birth or acquired through brain injury.
She has face blindness and didn't recognize her own sister at the reunion.
- social cuesIndicators of interpersonal meaning
- visual memoryRecollection of seen things
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- emotional expressionConveying feelings outwardly
- brain lesionsInjured areas in cerebrum
cognitive disorder · neurology · cerebral cortex · visual processing · trust-building · temporal lobe · aphasia · occipital lobe · eye contact · memory recall · body language · social awkwardness · visual acuity · brain injury · agnosia · pattern recognition · amnesia · genetic testing
- blindnesslow vision, vision loss, sightlessness, visual impairment, tunnel vision
- vision problemsblurry vision, visual impairment, vision loss, sight loss, myopia
- Face Perceptioneye contact, emotion recognition, smile detection, lip reading, profile view
- agnosiasagnosia
- perceptionsee, vision, seeing, senses, observing
- doublesdouble, doubles, twin, twins, duplicate
face, faces, faced, facing, facial, facially, deface, defaced, defacement