prosopagnosia in English

noun
1
an inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain.
He and his colleagues describe covert recognition in prosopagnosia , another category-specific agnosia in which faces cannot be visually recognized.

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1. ProsopAgnosia is also known as face blindness or facial Agnosia

2. Visual Agnosias include pure object agnosia, prosopagnosia, akinetopsia, and pure alexia

3. The term prosopAgnosia comes from the Greek words for “face” and “lack of knowledge.”

4. ProsopAgnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces

5. Prosopagnosia is one of many surprisingly specific mental deficits that can happen after brain damage.

6. These are day-to-day problems encountered by people suffering from specific forms of brain damage (prosopagnosia and visual agnosia).

7. Higher visual disorders as discussed in this paper comprise visual hallucinations, palinopsy, hemineglect, Balint Holmes syndrome, prosopagnosia, visual objectagnosia, alexia without agraphia and cerebral achromatopsia.

8. Agnosias affecting the “what?” pathway include object agnosia, cerebral achromatopsia, prosopagnosia, topographagnosia, and pure alexia, whereas those affecting the “where?” pathway include akinetopsia, astereognosis, and simultanagnosia

9. Agnosias are defined in terms of the specific sensory modality affected—usually visual, auditory, or tactile—or they may be selective for one class of items within a sensory modality, such as color agnosia or prosopagnosia (agnosia for faces)

10. The cardinal symptoms of PCA are deficits of higher visual and spatial functions (mostly taking the form of Balint’s syndrome), variably associated with disorders of visual perception, topographical disorientation, visual object agnosia and prosopagnosia, and deficits affecting reading, copying, drawing, and calculation.