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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • What is the neural basis for this phenomena?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

Questions

  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • What is the neural basis for this phenomena?

###Related questions

Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • What is the neural basis for this phenomena?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • Is there aWhat is the neural explanationbasis for this phenomena?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • Is there a neural explanation for this phenomena?

###Related questions

Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • What is the neural basis for this phenomena?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really meethave met before. Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition givesstates that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often. What happens in my brain?

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • Is there a neural explanation for this phenomena?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really meet before. Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition gives:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often. What happens in my brain?

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Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.

The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:

Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. This represents a failure to encode incoming visual information. Neurological studies indicate that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system, primarily located in the mesial occipitotemporal region.

I don't have problems with identifying faces, I just group them too often.

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  • Why do novel faces sometimes look familiar?
  • Is this related to a kind of face-blindness?
  • Is there a neural explanation for this phenomena?

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