People suffering from prosopagnosia can not recognize faces

Prosopagnosia - a disorder of the perception of a person, in which the ability to recognize faces is lost, but the ability to recognize objects as a whole preserved. Typically, this condition is associated with damage to the brain in the right nizhnezatylochnoy area, but new evidence has shown that there is also a congenital form of the disorder.

To help people suffering from prosopagnosia have developed successful therapy to help them learn to recognize people for such features as gait, hairstyle, voice, stock figures, style of dress, and so on. N. As is usually the person is the individual character and the most important differentiating factor in memory, for people with this condition it can be difficult to properly correlate the information about the people and live a normal life.

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