Cecilia Burman has prosopagnosia, commonly known as “face-blindness.†She wrote Face Blindness and Stones to illustrate what this condition is like, comparing her difficulty in facial recognition to the way a normal person would have trouble telling one stone from another, and some of the coping mechanisms she uses. http://www.prosopagnosia.com/main/stones/index.asp -via Reddit
Yes, I read about this or a similar condition in the Oliver Sacks book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".
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I wonder if hearing the voice of the other person helps (does face blindness extend to voice recognition defect?)
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