New evidence suggests face blindness - known officially as prosopagnosia - should be classified as a distinct impairment. Symptoms include being unable to spot a person in a crowd, confusing ...

They find it tricky to recognise faces and can therefore struggle to socially interact with those around them. People with this type of “face blindness” may not realise they have it until they reach ...

Face blindness is a real medical condition, scientists have said. Prosopagnosia, known as facial blindness, affects at least 2 per cent of people and symptoms include being unable to spot a person ...

Sadie Dingfelder is the author of Do I Know You?A Face Blind Reporter’s Journey Into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination. Science writer Sadie Dingfelder always knew she was different but ...

People with acquired prosopagnosia recognize few faces, a condition known also as "face blindness." These are people who have suffered brain damage that interferes with their ability to recognize ...

Terms like colour blindness and selective blindness are fairly common, but have you ever heard of face blindness? Also known as prosopagnosia, this disorder prevents individuals from identifying ...

Listen: Dr Hayley Ryder, a lecturer at the Open University in Milton Keynes, talks about living with facial blindness What is face blindness and how many people are affected by it? Prosopagnosia ...

And conversely, people with face blindness not only struggle with faces but may also have difficulties processing other types of visual information. Curiously, however, super-recognizer abilities ...