Prosopagnosia

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prosopagnosia (Greek: prosopon = face, agnosia = not knowing) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage, but a congenital form of the disorder has been proposed, which may be inherited by about 2.5% of the population. The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus.