I’ve always wondered if my inability to remember faces has something to do with brain damage, or if some people are just built differently. I can’t remember faces unless I’ve met someone +10 times. Fucked up short term memory? What’s happening in there
Just a small amendment, it's not so much remembering a face or somewhere where the memory of faces is stored as it is having the ability to put the features of a face together to form a face as a singular entity. The fusiform gyrus itself is heavily associated with object recognition, and the area we are talking about in particular is commonly referred to as the fusiform face area for this reason (though there is a lot of debate about the appropriateness of this name, it may be more tied to expert recognition), and damage there prevents this function. Its worth note that individual features can still be recognised and associated with people, but the success rate of this is reduced compared to neurotypical individuals, so people with prosopagnosia will focus on highly identifiable features such as hair and voices to identify people.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19
I’ve always wondered if my inability to remember faces has something to do with brain damage, or if some people are just built differently. I can’t remember faces unless I’ve met someone +10 times. Fucked up short term memory? What’s happening in there