Directory of Prosopagnosia Resources

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Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. In extreme cases the ability to recognize a face as a face is impaired.

Resources in This Category

• Barry Wainwright on being unable to recognise faces

  http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/exp-erience-prosopagnosia-face-blindness-neurology
  The Guardian interviews a man who can’t recognize himself, his wife or his seven children.

• Face Blind

  http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/
  Bill Choisser describes life with face blindness, and in particular the effect on sexuality and socializing.

• Face Blind Discussion Group

  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/faceblind/
  Welcoming face blind people, family members, friends, researchers, counselors, faculty, and students.

• Face blindness not just skin deep

  http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/02/02/face.blindness/
  CNN asks readers to “Imagine an entire day of seeing faces—friends, co-workers, even family—but not being able to retain those images in your mind”.

• Face blindness: Seeing but not seeing

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24385650
  The BBC reports on two people with prosopagnosia.

• Face Research at Macquarie University

  http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/projects/faceresearch/
  The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science is interested in how people perceive and recognize faces and facial expressions, so has been studying people with prosopagnosia and epilepsy.

• No Face Like Home

  http://prosopagnosic.blogspot.com/
  Lie, deny, sigh, these have been my social coping skills. Trying to figure out a better way to go through life as a prosopagnosic, aka, faceblind person.

• Prosopagnosia

  http://home.earthlink.net/~blankface/prosopagnosia.shtml
  The condition of face blindness, from the perspective of a person who acquired it from a childhood injury.

• Prosopagnosia on The Hour

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO4iSqIGn2g
  The Hour on YouTube discusses prosopagnosia.

• Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London

  http://www.faceblind.org/
  Asking prosopagnosiacs to contact the research team.

• Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
  The free encyclopaedia distinguishes between apperceptive prosopagnosia, associative prosopagnosia, and developmental prosopagnosia.

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