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Term first used
by Bodamer, 1947
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Inability to
recognize familiar faces
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Visual acuity is
normal
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Caused by lesion
to right inferior temporal lobe
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May be congenital
(“developmental
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prosopagnosia”)
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Patients
compensate by using other recognition
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cues: clothing,
gait, voice, etc.
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