Some of the most common category-specific agnosias involve recognition impairments for living things, but not non-living things, or human faces, as inprosopagnosia.
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Someone withprosopagnosiacan not identify the face but is still able to perceive age, gender, and emotional expression.
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For example, some people who have suffered strokes or other brain damage have a syndrome known asprosopagnosia.
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The study ofprosopagnosiahas been crucial in the development of theories of face perception.
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This is very interesting as to the possibility of relating to neurological disorders ofprosopagnosiaand explaining the complexity and interest in the human hand.
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In addition, the characteristic comorbidity ofprosopagnosiawas present.
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There are two types ofprosopagnosia: acquired and congenital (developmental).
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Close suffers fromprosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, in which he is unable to recognize faces.
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This is likely due to the fact that it can easily be misdiagnosed asprosopagnosiabased on symptoms.
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A specific form of associative visual agnosia is known asprosopagnosia.
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Some doctors have even recognized distinctions in deficits of facial perception and facial memory encoding and classified them as subfamilies ofprosopagnosia.
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The specific brain area usually associated withprosopagnosiais the fusiform gyrus, which activates specifically in response to faces.
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Children withprosopagnosiamay also have difficulties following the plots of television shows and movies, as they have trouble recognizing the different characters.
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It would not be useful in diagnosing patients with associativeprosopagnosiasince they are able to match faces.
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The brain areas thought to play a critical role in apperceptiveprosopagnosiaare right occipital temporal regions.
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