Davis (2007) stated that baseline testing must be performed at a young age so that children with prosopagnosia do not grow feelings of isolation and depression for now, there is no treatment available with prosopagnosia same with dyslexia or autism, however once parents become familiar with their child who have this condition, parents will be able to adjust with the situation, although it can be difficult emotionally, specifically if their child cannot identify them as his/her parents; on the contrary, it is not as good as when parents reprimand their child for something that can not be managed and for the children who have prosopagnosia, it can be reassuring to be acquainted with why their parent can be at times appear unaware to them.
Duchaine and Garrido (2008) said that the results are constant with face-specific processes, but it is also consistent with other accounts of face recognition, cases illustrating dissociations among impaired face identification and normal object identification are very helpful, however more examination is required in such cases to distinguish the mechanisms implementing face recognition for the reason that a number of cases of prosopagnosia recognize that face recognition and object recognition are dissociable, but do not suggest that deficits to face-specific mechanisms account for the dissociation -- for instance, Psychologist Martha Farah in1990 recommended a two-process theory of visual recognition that is composed of a holistic system and a parts-based system; faces were the archetypal stimulus for the holistic system, object recognition depended on one or both systems rely on the properties of the object, and word recognition relied on the parts-based system and the method foresees dissociations among unlike groups although does not include face-specific mechanisms; likewise, further descriptions of face-specific deficits that do not suggest face-specific mechanisms propose that the impaired mechanisms in such cases are focused on something other than faces.
Based on the article of Davis (2007), it can be understood that face blindness is not a common...
Many people who are suffering from being face blind have been accused of not attempting enough or not paying attention or yet being arrogant to greet others. Through the Yahoo group, other people who do not have no idea that they are experiencing prosopagnosia were able to help them recognize and understand themselves more and see that they are indeed experiencing a problem and that in spite of having such handicap, they are trying to cope up and lead a 'normal' lives.
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ABC News (2007, July). Faceblindness: Forgetting Familiar Faces, People With the Disorder Have Normal Vision Otherwise. Retrieved on March 21, 2009 at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3361813&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312.
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Davis, J. (2007, March). Face Blind. Wired Magazine. Retrieved on March 21, 2009 at http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~ptrapnel/stories/FaceBlind.html.
Duchaine, B. & Garrido, L. (2008). We're getting warmer: Characterizing the mechanisms of face recognition with acquired prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 765-768.
Wainwright, B. (2008, November). I don't recognise my own face. Retrieved on March 21, 2009 from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/exp-erience-prosopagnosia-face-blindness-neurology.
