Thursday, September 8, 2011

Face Blindness: Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia is a disorder, where the inflicted are at a disadvantage when recognizing faces. The next two YouTube clips show how this disorder affects facial perception.

The first clip is from a segment on "The Hour", which focuses on National Post photo editor Jeff Wasserman. Jeff Wasserman and his brother both suffer from 'face blindness'.
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This clip is Dr. Oliver Sacks, a famous neurologist, that speaks about face blindness and other neurological problems.

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