Congenital Prosopagnosia Essay

Congenital prosopagnosia (CP) refers to the deficit in face processing that is apparent from early childhood in the absence of any underlying neurological basis and in the presence of intact sensory and intellectual function (Behrmann & Avidan, 2005). According to recent studies, there is growing evidence suggesting that there might be a heredofamilial factor in congenital prosopagnosia. The research report of Thomas Grüter caused a strong reaction in the field of medicine. Innate weakness of a certain function in the brain is a cause of face blindness, which is similar to that of writing and reading. Congenital face blindness is genetically determined, also is of heredity (Katharina Schöbi, 2013). Based on the research of Martina Grüter, the number of patients with a congenital face blindness may be more than that of the known.
Impacts of prosopagnosia.
People with prosopagnosia can not identify person by the appearance, and their own children or parents are no exception. Some patients can recognize the appearance, but they can not remember whose face it is and sometimes even their own. On the contrary, they can remember the house or furniture. Furthermore, severe patients cannot put a separate facial features such as nose, mouth and eyes combined into a whole identification, also fail to identify the age and gender
From the very early，most of them began to use a variety of methods to solve the problems unable to recognize faces. Hair, eyelashes, ears, teeth arrangement, hands, sound, clothing and even walk are all the momentous ways to cope with their own congenital defects. Therefore, the troubles bringing to prosopagnosia patients in life as can be imagined. They may not have finished watching a movie, because they can't figure out the characters. So they are unable to find someone special from the collective group photo, let alone call their