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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Well, i can safely assume that I am the only one here that has read probably 5 books in the last 2 weeks on neuroscience alone with disorders like this discussed in great detail in most of them and am the only one that doesn't tend to read anything thats not related to psychology (primarily interested in moral psychology), evolutionary biology and neuroscience (primarily interested in theories on consciousness awareness and general brain functions).
There are many forms of agnosia. There is nothing new about not being able to recognize faces as there is an area of the brain responsible specifically for facial recognition and many other areas that can be affected with similar results as i mentioned above. It's very simple. A part of brain recognizes faces. Pathways to that part of the brain or that area itself are damaged or disrupted. Result... difficulty recognizing faces.
Not sure why that would be so difficult to understand. Furthermore, its quite odd that you would be driven to deny it.
To say it was only discovered a couple years ago is obviously wrong since its been well studied and well documented in many forms for well over a century.
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ok, if you want to go this route.
The disorder was thought to be exceedingly rare and mainly a result of brain injury. Until a few years ago, there were perhaps 100 documented cases, says Ken Nakayama, a professor of psychology at Harvard.
Ken Nakayama is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He is most recently known for his work on prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces.
He received his BA from Haverford College and PhD from UCLA. From 1971 to 1990, he was at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Since then, he has been faculty at Harvard University. He helped in the formation of Vision Sciences Society and was its first president.
i'm sure your 5 books are equivalent though eh.