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Super recogniser" is a term coined in 2009 by Harvard and University College London researchers for people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability. [1] [2] Super recognisers are able to memorise and recall thousands of faces, often having seen them only once. [3]
Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.
[149] [150] [151] [91] People with schizophrenia demonstrate worse accuracy and slower response time in face perception tasks in which they are asked to match faces, remember faces, and recognize which emotions are present in a face. [91] People with schizophrenia have more difficulty matching upright faces than they do with inverted faces. [149]
Recognition memory, a subcategory of explicit memory, is the ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people. [1] When the previously experienced event is reexperienced, this environmental content is matched to stored memory representations, eliciting matching signals. [2]
Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is a neurological condition in which you cannot recognize familiar faces, including your own family or sometimes even your own face. “Cousin face" is actually ...
Brad Pitt recently addressed his long struggle with being unable to recognize people's faces, and how that's led to some assuming that he's self-absorbed and even rude.In a recent interview with ...
The brain region that specifies in facial recognition is the fusiform face area. Prosopagnosia can also be divided into apperceptive and associative subtypes. Recognition of individual chairs, cars, animals can also be impaired; therefore, these object share similar perceptual features with the face that are recognized in the fusiform face area ...
Individuals with prosopagnosia know that they are looking at faces, but cannot recognize people by the sight of their face, even people whom they know well. [ 6 ] Simultagnosia , an inability to recognize multiple objects in a scene, including distinct objects within a spatial layout and distinguishing between "local" objects and "global ...