How to Use prosopagnosia in a Sentence

prosopagnosia

noun
  • The only pleasures remaining to the audience are the brief delectation of the flowing pre-Raphaelite hair of Beauty (Leslie Keller) and a lame joke about prosopagnosia.
    Dan Jakes, Chicago Reader, 8 Feb. 2018
  • This is known as acquired prosopagnosia and is relatively rare.
    Kate Samuelson, Time, 14 July 2017
  • Alice has a condition called face blindness, also known as prosopagnosia.
    Sarah Bate, Scientific American, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Damage to this area results in face blindness, or prosopagnosia, which in the most severe cases makes sufferers unable to recognize themselves in pictures and even mirrors.
    Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 1 May 2020
  • Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is an inability to recognize people’s faces.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The research could also potentially yield understandings of how the brain sees faces that might help people with congenital prosopagnosia, commonly known as face blindness.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Experts have labeled this condition prosopagnosia, otherwise known as face blindness.
    Angie Orellana Hernandez, USA TODAY, 6 July 2022
  • Developing prosopagnosia usually happens in early childhood and is not caused by injury.
    Ebony Williams, ajc, 11 July 2022
  • During the scenes in the underground lab, Bernard runs a diagnostic on himself that returns a list of critical failures, including time slippage, cognitive dissonance, and prosopagnosia.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 24 Apr. 2018
  • His mastery of portraiture was all the more remarkable given his prosopagnosia -- or face blindness -- a condition that prevented him from recognizing or recalling people's faces.
    CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Studies show 1 in 50 people may have developmental prosopagnosia.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022
  • For example, people with prosopagnosia may have reduced connectivity between brain regions in the face processing network.
    Karen Lander, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is a neurological condition resulting in trouble identifying human faces.
    Daniel Gibbs, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021

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