What Happens When You Can't Recognize Faces? [Science]

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Sometimes I have trouble associating names with faces but I'm not as bad as Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and author, who can't recognize any face, including his own. Scientifically speaking, Sacks suffers from a disorder called prosopagnosia, which is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired. More »

Casey Chan 02 Mar, 2011

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5773827/what-happens-when-you-cant-recognize-faces
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