Developmental and Acquired Prosopagnosia

The capacity to identify known faces, including one's own, is diminished in prosopagnosia, a cognitive disease of face perception, although other elements of optical and perceptual functioning remain unaffected. The word was first used to describe a condition that followed acquired prosopagnosia, but there is also a developmental version of the illness with an incidence of less than 3% (Albonico & Barton, 2019). The two forms of prosopagnosia share various characteristics but are intrinsically distinguished by various causes and mechanisms associated with their development in individuals. Prosopagnosia is often associated with the fusiform gyrus, a brain region that predominantly reacts to faces. Due to the working of the fusiform gyrus, most people can distinguish faces more accurately than comparable complex inanimate objects (Albonico & Barton, 2019). The simpler object-recognition system is what allows prosopagnosics to recognize faces. Furthermore, recognized face pictures are more commonly associated with the right side of the brain's fusiform gyrus than the left. But it is still uncertain whether the fusiform gyrus participates in highly refined sensory input or merely in recognition of individual faces (Adams et al., 2019). Thus, prosopagnosia is categorized as acquired or developmental, depending on various mechanisms and causes.