image: Ability to recognize immediate family and close friends if meeting them unexpectedly out of context.
Credit: Lowes et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters
Article URL: https://plos.io/3Y6m9Rg
Article title: This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia
Author countries: U.K., U.S.
Funding: This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship https://www.ukri.org/councils/esrc/ (grant number ES/P000681/1) and grant from the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section to JL and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/ (grant number ECF-2019-416) to AB. Role of the funding source: Funders had no influence on the study.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia
Article Publication Date
30-Apr-2025
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.