Question

About prosopagnosia commonly known as face blindness;

1.would you say that face blindness is mainly a problem with sensation or a problem with perception? why do you think so?

2.where would you place the dividing line between every forgetfulness about people's faces and face blindness? what test would you apply to decide if a person is just very forgetful or face blind?

3.Does face blindness seem to be a problem with feature detection? why or why not?

4. in what ways might new technologies help persons with face blindness to cope with their disability? what might be some advantages and disadvantages of such an adaptive technology?

Answer 1

1.face blindness is a a problem of perception. Because it is a cognitive disorder of face perception.

2. Forgetfullness is a matter of memory. It can be due to other cognitive isorders like alzheimers etc. But face blindness is a neurological disorder that causes damage to brain parts and lead to inrecognition of faces or its parts, not forgetting someone whom we have seen before.

3.Yes faceblindness seem to be a problem with feature detection. Because people with the disorder wont be able to identify the features of others or their own faces.

4. New tachnologies like gene transplatation can be used for solving such issues in the later run