Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is an impairment in the recognition of faces. It is often accompanied by other types of recognition impairments (place recognition, car recognition, facial expression of emotion, etc.) though sometimes it appears to be restricted to facial identity.

Research Centres Studying Prosopagnosia

Australia

Laura Schmalzl, Romina Palermo, Peter De Lissa, Christopher Sewell, Romina Palermo, Megan Willis at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Belgium

Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie (NEFY), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Germany

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Muenster, Germany Ingo Kennerknecht

Netherlands

Edward de Haan, Psychological Laboratory, Utrecht University

United Kingdom

Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Exeter

Jules Davidoff, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London

Brad Duchaine, and Noam Sagiv Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London, UK.

United States

Robertson Cognitive NeuroPsychology Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, US and their project survey

Nancy Kanwisher, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Michigan, US.

Marlene Behrmann, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, US.

Ken Nakayama -Prosopagnosia Research Center, Harvard University, US.

Martha J. Farah, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Antonio Damasio, University of Southern California

Daphne Maurer, Visual Development Lab, University of Toronto

Isabel Gauthier, Department of Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Finding and sharing lay experiences of Prosopagnosia

FaceBlind, at LiveCommunity Journal. This is a community blog full of the lay experiences of people with faceblindness from all over the world.

Support organisations

The Find a Face organisation is an international nonprofit organization committed to promoting greater awareness, education, detection, and accommodation for Children affected by Prosopagnosia.

Tests

Pre-Screening Demo from Berkeley

Scholarly articles on Prosopagnosia

Medline search results (almost 200 articles)

Popular articles on Prosopagnosia

When faces have no name, Carey Goldberg, Boston Globe, 14 June 2006

Have we met? Science Now, 2 June 2006