noun

• A neurological condition characterized by the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people.

  ‘He and his colleagues describe covert recognition in prosopagnosia, another category-specific agnosia in which faces cannot be visually recognized.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Deep prosopagnosia (impaired facial recognition) could also be a reason for autoscopy.’
  • ‘Another well-known and dramatic line of evidence for specific face-processing brain regions is the existence of the neuropsychological deficit of prosopagnosia.’
  • ‘Other people suffer from prosopagnosia due to trauma to the brain that caused brain damage.’
  • ‘It is widespread, institutionalised prosopagnosia.’