People with prosopagnosia use hair, clothes, gait as recognition cues, One of the funniest bits in last season’s Arrested Development was Lindsay Bluth’s boyfriend Marky Bark, who allegedly suffered from “face blindness”.
Turns out that it’s not just a bit, but an actual thing: Prosopagnosia or the inability to recognize people’s faces. Those who suffer from the disease have to use someone’s hair, clothes and gait as recognition cues. It is believed to affect about 2.5% of the population.
People with prosopagnosia use hair, clothes, gait as recognition cues
Famous sufferers of face-blindness include Brad Pitt and Oliver Sacks. Sacks is the author of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. He began studying Prosopagnosia when he mistook one of his own brothers for a different one. After talking to his family, the realized that many of them had difficulty remembering faces.
Turns out that it’s not just a bit, but an actual thing: Prosopagnosia or the inability to recognize people’s faces. Those who suffer from the disease have to use someone’s hair, clothes and gait as recognition cues. It is believed to affect about 2.5% of the population.
People with prosopagnosia use hair, clothes, gait as recognition cues
Famous sufferers of face-blindness include Brad Pitt and Oliver Sacks. Sacks is the author of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. He began studying Prosopagnosia when he mistook one of his own brothers for a different one. After talking to his family, the realized that many of them had difficulty remembering faces.
