{"id":8854,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prosopagnosia\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:14","slug":"prosopagnosia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prosopagnosia\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosopagnosia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as \u2018facial blindness\u2019 and \u2018facial agnosia\u2019, it is a neurological disorder usually involving damage to the posterior right hemisphere (viz., fusiform gyrus) resulting in complete or partial loss of the ability to recognize familiar faces.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, some individuals with prosopagnosia are challenged in be able to distinguish between unknown faces and still others cannot recognize their own faces. &nbsp;While most attention has so far been devoted to understanding acquired prosopagnosia due, for example to a stroke or neurodegenerative diseases), there is also \u2018congenital\u2019 or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.info.nih.gov\/diseases\/10035\/developmental-prosopagnosia\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.info.nih.gov\/diseases\/10035\/developmental-prosopagnosia?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018developmental&#8217; prosopagnosia<\/a>&nbsp;(perhaps in the case of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/second-opinion\/2010\/08\/oliver-sacks-describes-his-struggle-face-blindness\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/second-opinion\/2010\/08\/oliver-sacks-describes-his-struggle-face-blindness\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oliver Sacks<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Moreover, it is also evident in cases of autism and other developmental disorders such as Turner\u2019s syndrome and Williams syndrome.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such cases implicate a genetic deletion or mutation.&nbsp;&nbsp;As can be imagined, the disorder has severe social consequences and treatment is directed towards compensatory strategies such as voice recognition.&nbsp;Its prevalence has been subjected to little research, but one estimate puts it at 1<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/shortcuts\/2018\/jan\/29\/one-in-50-of-us-is-face-blind-and-many-dont-even-realise\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/shortcuts\/2018\/jan\/29\/one-in-50-of-us-is-face-blind-and-many-dont-even-realise?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in 50 people<\/a>&nbsp;(with developmental prosopagnosia seemingly more prevalent).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"agnosia\">Agnosia<\/a>, Configural processing, <a href=\"face_processing\">Face processing<\/a>, Facial recognition, <a href=\"fusiform_gyrus\">Fusiform gyrus<\/a>, <a href=\"inferior_temporal_cortex_-itc-\">Inferior temporal cortex (ITC)<\/a>, <a href=\"n170\">N170<\/a>, <a href=\"turner-s_syndrome\">Turner&#8217;s syndrome<\/a>, <a href=\"williams_syndrome\">Williams syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as \u2018facial blindness\u2019 and \u2018facial agnosia\u2019, it is a neurological disorder usually involving damage to the posterior right hemisphere (viz., fusiform gyrus) resulting in complete or partial loss of the ability to recognize familiar faces.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, some individuals with prosopagnosia are challenged in be able to distinguish between unknown faces and still others cannot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prosopagnosia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prosopagnosia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}