Strategies to recognise people require ‘huge mental effort’ and often don’t work.
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We’re working on a ‘cure’ for congenital prosopagnosia.
As many as one in 50 people are face blind, meaning they can’t tell one face from another.
Face blindness is believed to be a fairly common condition but, until now, diagnosis has been complicated and expensive
Do you recognise the people in the picture above? They are, of course, Jane Goodall – British primatologist and anthropologist – and the actor, author and comedian Stephen Fry. Recognising the identity…
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