Face Blindness or Prosopagnosia

Some people with normal vision cannot distinguish faces. This unusual disorder sounds like something from a neuroscientist's daydreams. A friend, Kathy, sent me an article about this rare trait. It seems that scientists are using FMRI technology to learn more about the brain. Google prosopagnosia and read interesting articles about a different kind of blindness; also check Wikipedia. See a long piece in Wired.

Naturally, I did not post audio--I had no idea how to pronounce the Greek-sounding term for face blindness!

- Text by David Faucheux