Concept information
Preferred term
prosopagnosia
Definition
- "Prosopagnosia means inability to recognize faces, the term deriving from the Greek prosopon (face) and gnosis (knowledge), and refers to a condition that was first observed as a consequence of brain lesions (acquired prosopagnosia). The term is also used to refer to a graded but clearly disproportionate difficulty to recognize faces in the absence of a neurological damage (developmental prosopagnosia)." (Lahiri, 2020, p. 479).
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- agnosia for face
- face blindness
- facial recognition agnosia
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Barton, J. J. S., Davies-Thompson, J., & Corrow, S. L. (2021). Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 178, 175–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821377-3.00006-4
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Bodamer, J. (1947). Die Prosop-Agnosie: Die Agnosie des Physiognomieerkennens. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, 179(1–2), 6–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00352849
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Lahiri, D. (2020). Prosopagnosia. Cortex, 132, 479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.08.010
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Quaglino, A., & Borelli, G. (1867). Emiplegia sinistra con amaurosiguarigione-perdita totale della percezione dei colouri e della memoria della configurazione degli oggetti. Giornale d’Oftalmologia Italiano, 10, 106–117.
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Rossion, B. (2022). Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part I: Function. Neuropsychologia, 173, 108278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108278
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has diagnostic tool(s)
Disorder of
In other languages
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French
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agnosie de reconnaissance des visages
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agnosie des visages
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cécité aux visages
URI
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