That’s why Freud and co-authors decided to study how masks impair people’s facial recognition skills. Some have face blindness their whole lives; others develop it suddenly after trauma to the brain. Just because you’re tripped up by face masks doesn’t mean you have true face blindness. She added that for most adults, face recognition is an extremely sophisticated process that happens almost instantaneously. So scientists have gained much of their understanding of face recognition by studying people with prosopagnosia.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 04:41 UTC