prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia (from Greek prósōpon, meaning 'face', and agnōsía, meaning 'non-knowledge'), also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), ...