Prosopagnosia

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Prosopagnosia is a disorder that many people haven’t really heard of. It is a disorder in which an individual has an easy enough time processing facial feature but a hard time trying to recognize them. It can cause a lot of social difficulties with those around them. It can mainly be acquired by birth or through brain damage. Those with congenital or have had prosopagnosia since birth can find that they have a difficulty with not just recognizing faces but as well as sensory and cognition functions as well as having problems with recognizing certain objects. The disorder can sometimes make it difficult to live with because they are unable to recognize face or objects and they need to find new ways to try to recognize people. It can make having …show more content…

All the students were asked permission to use their photograph in the study being done. The students being used had glasses or normal eye sight and had no neurological disorders. The participants had gone through two neurological testing to screen them and see their ability to recognize unfamiliar faces. Once the screening was done there was 44 of the participants who where part of the control group, all the participants had no problem with recognizing unfamiliar faces. Whereas the 14 other participants were the group who had seem to have the most difficulty with recognizing unfamiliar faces. They would be the ones whose scores would be tested more thoroughly.
The 14 participants who had difficulty with recognizing unfamiliar faces were put through a semi-structured interview with a professional psychologist who had classified the participants as having congenital prosopagnosia. They had then been screened for and second time for congenital prosopagnosia in which case it had moved to ten participants instead of the original

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