Prosopagnosia/Definition

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Prosopagnosia [r]: The inability to recognize a familiar face or to learn to recognize new faces. This visual agnosia is most often associated with lesions involving the junctional regions between the temporal and occipital lobes.

This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Prosopagnosia (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.