PSYC 309 Chapter Notes -Middle Temporal Gyrus, Electrodermal Activity, Prosopagnosia
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Just another face in the crowd, indistinguishable even if it"s your own. Face blindness = prosopagnosia: see faces but they all look about the same, can"t recognize people or remember faces. Other memory normal: remembering books, names, phone numbers etc. Face blindness can be bc stroke or brain injury, but also congenital/developmental. Face blind ppl try to recognize ppl in other ways: clothes, gait, voice, hair. Prosopognasia fairly common (maybe 2. 5%) but often unreported, don"t know you have it. Prosopognasia only recently considered medical; most think it"s a bad habit" or absent minded. Face blind ppl still understand facial emotions/cues, gender from face, and agree w/normal ppl about attractiveness of ppl. Poor recognition of familiar faces, even worse for family than celebrity. Sees family member"s faces as distorted, repulsive; grandkids overweight and too tan. Sometimes goes along w/other problems: finding way around, distinguishing cars/dogs from each other.
