Prosopagnosia - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

.. 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.

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