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Bournemouth University research into prosopagnosia (face blindness)

Bournemouth University research into prosopagnosia (face blindness)

Prosopagnosia, or ‘face blindness’ is a little known condition affecting 1 in 50 people. As Bournemouth University psychology lecturer Dr Sarah Bate explains, it is ‘literally a loss of memory for faces’. Speaking to BBC Inside Out’s Jon Cuthill, Dr Bate said: “Prosopagnosia sufferers know what a face is. They know the basic configuration of [...]