February 20, 2006
Fuzzy face recognition:
ABC Radio's All in the Mind discusses the curious condition of prosopagnosia, sometimes called 'face-blindness', where affected individuals can't recognise faces despite having intact vision and being able to recognise objects.
The programme discusses how face recognition can be affected after brain injury, and talks to both a person with the condition, and neuropsychologists trying to better understand how it occurs.
On a related note, last year we interviewed Thomas Grüter, a prosopagnosia researcher and someone who has an inherited version of the disorder.
mp3 or realaudio of programme.
Link to transcript.
