March 2012 archive

Face Blindness and Art

There was a segment on 60 minutes about “face blindness” and how it has affected Chuck Close, an artist famous for his close-up portraits.  Definition of “face blindness” from Wikipedia: Prosopagnosia (Greek: “prosopon” = “face”, “agnosia” = “not knowing”) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize facesis impaired, while the ability …

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