Difficulty in Identifying Faces? It seems that facial blindness is much more frequent than formerly believed by experts. 

What is facial blindness or prosopagnosia?

Prosopagnosia is a condition in which you have trouble recognising people’s faces. It is also called “face blindness.”

Experts state that when a person sees a face they are familiar with, it takes their brain less than half a second to make the connection between the face and an identity.

The majority of us carry out that seemingly simple task without even giving it a second thought because it comes so naturally to us. Yet, not everyone is not able to do so.

Some people suffer their entire lives with a disease known as developing prosopagnosia or facial blindness.

Key facts!

• In facial blindness, the faces of people they know appear strange or unfamiliar, but the features of people they have never seen before appear to be familiar.
• Surprisingly some people who suffer from the condition are unable to even identify themselves in the mirror.
• According to expert estimates, approximately nearly 2.5 per cent of the world’s population is assumed to have some form of this cognitive disease.
• Nevertheless, new research from Harvard University suggests that it may not be as uncommon as was previously believed.
• During the research a range of tests and questionnaires on facial recognition to over 3,000 adult participants in the United States
• As a result of the evaluation, the researchers discovered a group of persons who scored relatively low on all of the tests and questions.
• It is interesting to note that this particular group of patients did not always have the lowest scores on tests of facial recognition.
• The findings point to the existence of facial blindness on a range, similar to that seen in many other developmental illnesses such as autism.

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