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?
- Is there a neural explanation for this phenomena?
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