prosopagnosiaface blindness

condition

face blindness (lay)· facial agnosia (clinical)

mild form

face recognition deficit· facial recognition impairment

severe form

profound face blindness· total face agnosia

related

agnosia· visual agnosia· object agnosia· simultanagnosia· visuospatial agnosia

person

prosopagnosic· prosopagnosiac· face-blind person· prosopagnosic patient

face blindness (plain)· face agnosia (clinical)· facial agnosia (clinical)

developmental prosopagnosia (congenital)· acquired prosopagnosia (later onset)· congenital prosopagnosia (lifelong)· apperceptive prosopagnosia (perceptual)· associative prosopagnosia (memory-linked)

agnosia (umbrella)· visual agnosia (umbrella)· object agnosia (contrast)· simultanagnosia (contrast)· Capgras syndrome (delusional)· autism (comorbid)· social anxiety (consequence)

fusiform gyrus (key)· fusiform face area (key)· occipital lobe (visual)· temporal lobe (ventral)· amygdala (emotional)· right hemisphere (lateralized)

face recognition (impaired)· facial identity (impaired)· facial expression (sometimes spared)· gaze perception (sometimes spared)· lip reading (sometimes spared)· feature detection (elementary)· configural processing (disrupted)

unfamiliar faces (unrecognized)· familiar faces (unrecognized)· mirrors (self-recognition)· photographs (unrecognized)· crowds (overwhelming)· voices (compensatory)· gait (compensatory)· hair (compensatory)· clothing (compensatory)· context (compensatory)

avoidance (social)· peering (compensatory)· greeting errors (embarrassing)· reliance on cues (coping)· note-taking (coping)· name tags (aid)· introductions (dreaded)

prosopon (Greek)· prosopagnosic (noun)· face-blind (adjective)· prosopamnesia (related)· prosopometamorphopsia (related)

face memory test (diagnostic)· Benton test (diagnostic)· Cambridge face memory test (diagnostic)· self-report (screening)· neuroimaging (research)· differential diagnosis (clinical)

Dr. P (Sacks)· prosopagnosic author (memoir)· congenital case (lifelong)· acquired case (stroke)