2023-07-04 10:52:20
If people are hardly able to recognize others by their faces, this Disorder of visual perception included under the term prosopagnosia. The people who suffer from it are accordingly called prosopagnostics.
According to estimates by experts, suffer 2.5 percent of people under prosopagnosia. In relation to Germany, this corresponds approximately two million affected. Prosopagnosia often goes undetected.
Admittedly, prosopagnostics can Nose, Eyes or Lips perceive individually. They can too Alter, Gender as well as emotions read on the face. That is why the write-up “face blind” not quite accurate.
Overall, however, those affected have difficulties getting out of the separate visual impressions to identify a person.
around in everyday uncomfortable situations To counteract this, those affected develop workarounds: They take other identifying features such as these Voice, hairstyle or the Gang of a person to identify them.
Brad Pitt’s face is well known to movie fans. The superstar himself, on the other hand, has trouble remembering the faces of others. He suspects that he suffers from prosopagnosia.
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