When Your Brain Doesn’t Recognize Faces
The science behind ‘face blindness’
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4 min readJan 30, 2020
Much of human engagement relies upon the ability to recognize familiar faces. And yet this seemingly simple, widespread human capacity, which builds and strengthens social bonds, is not a given for everyone.
People with “face blindness”— known as prosopagnosia (from the Greek words for “face” and “without…
