prosopagnosian.

1950 Q. Cumulative Index Medicus 44 125/2 Agnosia in recognition of physiognomy (prosopagnosia).

1953 Brain 76 542 There is still to be considered the seeming contradiction between the patient's severe prosop-agnosia and his better achievements in the perception of Snellen's types, in time reading and counting of fingers.

1976 Lancet 30 Oct. 967/1 She can read n6 slowly and complains of inability to recognise faces (prosopagnosia): people are recognised by their voices.

1995 New Scientist 1 July 39/1 A brain-damaged patient suffering from prosopagnosia cannot recognise familiar faces although her vision is otherwise intact.

1964 Neuropsychologia 2 245 The combination of perceptual disability plus intellectual loss is sufficient to explain the prosopagnosic deficit.

1984 Neuropsychologica 22 457 A prosopagnosic was shown two sets of faces, one comprised of famous personalities, the other of family members.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Oct. 46/3 Other prosopagnosics turned out to have similar problems.