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Prosopometamorphopsia. Prosopometamorphopsia (sometimes known as " demon-face syndrome " [1] [2]) is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Prosopagnosia (from Greek prósōpon, meaning "face", and agnōsía, meaning "non-knowledge"), also known as 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 ...
Irlen syndrome (or scotopic sensitivity syndrome) is a hypothetical medical condition of disordered visual processing which, it is proposed, can be treated by wearing colored lenses. The ideas of Irlen syndrome are pseudoscientific and not supported by scientific evidence, [1] [2] [3] and its treatment has been described as a health fraud ...
A Tennessee man has a rare disorder that causes faces to appear distorted in shape, size, texture or color. To him, images show, they look demonic. Rare disorder causes man to see 'demonic' faces
In fact, a Washington Post analysis recently found that nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults wear corrective lenses, either glasses or contacts. The sample size of the data was pretty large too: more ...
Do you wear glasses? If so, a new study claims that you are more than likely very intelligent. Check out these smart famous glasses wearers: Researchers at the University Medical Center in Germany ...
Prosopamnesia (Greek: προσωπον = "face", αμνησια = forgetfulness) is a selective neurological impairment in the ability to learn new faces. There is a special neural circuit for the processing of faces as opposed to other non-face objects. Prosopamnesia is a deficit in the part of this circuit responsible for encoding perceptions ...
Pareidolia can cause people to interpret random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces. A 2009 magnetoencephalography study found that objects perceived as faces evoke an early (165 ms ) activation of the fusiform face area at a time and location similar to that evoked by faces, whereas other common objects do not evoke such activation.