Face recognition, the ability to process the visual information conveyed by faces, is critical to social interaction. Individuals with prosopoagnosia, a face recognition deficit that is characterised ...

In 2007, 22-year-old graduate student Jason Werbeloff was out clubbing in Johannesburg when he noticed something strange: the right side of his friend’s face seemed stretched and distorted, almost ...

Forgetting a face does feel like a small social failure. Meeting someone again and realizing their name escapes you is one thing, but not recognizing their face at all feels worse, as if you’ve erased ...