How to Use prosopagnosia in a Sentence

prosopagnosia

noun
  • This is known as acquired prosopagnosia and is relatively rare.
    — Kate Samuelson, Time, 2017-07-14
  • Alice has a condition called face blindness, also known as prosopagnosia.
    — Sarah Bate, Scientific American, 2019-12-26
  • Now an odd new neurologic symptom has been documented for the first time: prosopagnosia.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2023-03-14
  • Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is an inability to recognize people’s faces.
    — Washington Post, 2021-08-20
  • People with autism have a two- or three-fold higher chance of also having prosopagnosia compared to the general population.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2023-03-13
  • Developing prosopagnosia usually happens in early childhood and is not caused by injury.
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 2022-07-11
  • Developmental prosopagnosia can be hereditary and can sometimes go unnoticed in those who have it because they were born with the disorder.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2022-07-08
  • Studies show 1 in 50 people may have developmental prosopagnosia.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 2022-07-07
  • For example, people with prosopagnosia may have reduced connectivity between brain regions in the face processing network.
    — Karen Lander, Quartz, 2019-10-06
  • 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, 2018-03-06
  • 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, 2021-08-20
  • 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, 2018-02-08
  • 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, 2018-04-24

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