Sentences with phrase «called face blindness»

Prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder (typically, but not always, caused by acute brain damage) wherein the patient is unable to distinguish between faces.

The 74 - year - old New York artist has a condition called face blindness, but it has not stopped him from painting famous friends such as Barack Obama, composer Philip Glass and actor Brad Pitt.

It so happens that the artist suffers from severe lifelong prosopagnosia, a condition that is also called face blindness, a disability which he discussed in 2012 with Dr. Eric Kandel and Charlie Rose during a series of interviews titled The Creative Brain.

Jack Masselin, the young man in Jennifer Niven's Holding Up the Universe, suffers from prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness.

Again, this doesn't mean the fusiform gyrus isn't important — irregularities there have been linked to a condition called face blindness, which prevents humans from recognizing individuals — but it could mean that the human ability boils down to more than just some unique brain matter we've evolved to carry.

Not exact matches

There are external indicia of course — one's offspring earnestly advising how fat and bald you are, strangers calling you «sir» straight to your face with nary a hint of sarcasm — but I purposely adopt a stance of willful blindness regarding those.