Some people can see a face perfectly and still have no idea whose it is

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, leaves people unable to recognise faces — sometimes even their own in a mirror — despite normal vision and intelligence. Neurologist Oliver Sacks described his own lifelong case, helping bring a condition long dismissed as vanishingly rare into clinical view.

— Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — 1985; prosopagnosia first named by Joachim Bodamer, 1947
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