What is prosopagnosia and how might it affect those who have it?
What will be an ideal response?
Prosopagnosia—the inability to recognize faces—implies damage to the configurational system. Somebody with prosopagnosia can see the face of another person and even recognize whether that person is sad, happy, or angry. But what he fails to recognize is whether that person being observed is a stranger, his friend, or his own mother. The ability to recognize faces is especially influenced by lesions of the right fusiform gyrus, either unilateral or bilateral. Facial memories are affected, in particular, when the bilateral lesions include the right anterior temporal lobe. Because they have so much difficulty recognizing faces, people with prosopagnosia may have trouble in other areas of life as well. They may not be able to follow movies because they cannot keep track of the different actors and fail to recognize them when they appear in different scenes of the movie, for example.
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