Prosopagnosia

Short clip of a woman with prosopagnosia---the inability to recognize faces.

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• cognitive psychology
• prosopagnosia

[imaginenoreligion]

Let's keep testing her. Yup, she definitely can't recognise faces. Let's test her some more.

[rplorgeoux]

OMG that look at the end :'(

[velvetcat]

@GydoKamst Haha me too. I was so curious about it when playing that I looked it up

[lorenaverdugo25]

@curselikfucknsailors no jajaja

[rustymozzy]

@paulequeenie, I have a less severe case of this, I only recognise ppl in context, if I work with them and then see them down the shop, I don't know who is talking to me, so I just laugh and joke about generic stuff, and walk away still not knowing who it was...

It's something you learn to adapt to...

If ppl can hide the fact they can't read or write, and still be active in society, not recognising faces doesn't make you less able to be productive...

[GydoKamst]

9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors brought me here. This is a sad, but intruiging kind of agnosia.

[Magnum11892]

I couldn't even recognize half the people in that video.... :S

[PauleQueenie]

Is this patient still able to work and be part of the professional society otherwise named economically active while suffering from prosopagnosia? If this patient does not recover what will happen then of her economically and financially provided there is no cure, only palliative treatment engendering slight or no improvement over time. How active in society could she become again?

[curselikfucknsailors]

am i the only one who laughed at her reaction to her own picture?

[elgmalone]

@RHIANNAKM It wouldn't matter because they were showing her random pictures. If they were showing her pictures of a particular group of people and she knew her picture was in there somewhere, the hair texture / style might have tipped her off that it was her. That picture could have literally been anyone and pictures from the neck up are the most difficult. There's no height, body type, or movement to use as clues. Hair can only help so much but you still to put it in context.

[elgmalone]

@twixiechick I wasn't offended by your comment at all. I'm just letting you know that it's only lonely if you let it be. You take what you get in life and do with it what you can. I can't pick my own picture out of a family album, but I'm not sad about it. I'm a very happy person.

[elgmalone]

@twixiechick You cope with it just like any other disorder. I have lots of friends and family, a husband and a child. Ok, so I have to dress my kid in clothes that stand out and yes I take a picture of him with my phone before we leave the house everyday, in the off chance he does wonder off or leave my sight I can show other people exactly what he looks like and get assistance finding him. But I'm certainly not lonely. Btw, don't take this comment as a lecture.