How Face Blindness Works

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Imagine not being able to recognize the people you see every single day; your coworkers, your friends, your loved ones. “Prosopagnosia,” or “face blindness,” as it’s commonly known, is a disorder that impacts about 1 in 50 people, and some may not even know about it. They may go ...  Show more

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La capacité de dire si l’individu en face de nous est une personne que nous avons déjà croisée ou un total inconnu apparaît comme un élément essentiel dans le contact avec les autres. Si de nombreuses études se sont intéressées à la manière dont le cerveau décode et traite spécif ...  Show more

You may have noticed that maintaining eye contact while speaking can be difficult, even though verbal processing seems like it should be independent. Still, many people frequently look away from their conversers while chatting. So is there an interference between the two processe ...  Show more