Advertisement

Face Blindness

Our ability to recognise other people’s faces is often taken for granted, with some of us bette...

Share this article

15.37 4 Sep 2020


Face Blindness


Listen to this episode


Share this article

15.37 4 Sep 2020


Our ability to recognise other people’s faces is often taken for granted, with some of us better able than others.

But what if you have no ability to recall faces at all.

This is called face blindness or prosopagnosia, to give it its medical term.

Could face blindness have consequences socially and even for people’s occupations? 

Brad Duchaine - Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth University


Read more about

Neuroscience Prosopagnosia Superrecognizers

Related Episodes

Three Austrian nuns on the run...

00:07:42

Three Austrian nuns on the run!

The Pat Kenny Show

00:07:42


Extremist views seen by the ma...

00:12:51

Extremist views seen by the majority of young people online

The Pat Kenny Show

00:12:51


TII has admitted that the M50...

00:12:11

TII has admitted that the M50 is ‘maxed out’

The Pat Kenny Show

00:12:11


Ireland’s falling fertility ra...

00:06:54

Ireland’s falling fertility rates

Newstalk Breakfast

00:06:54