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U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters

04.30.25 | PLOS

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This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia
Ability to recognize immediate family and close friends if meeting them unexpectedly out of context. Credit: Lowes et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters

Article URL : https://plos.io/3Y6m9Rg

Article title: This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia

Author countries: U.K., U.S.

Funding: This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship https://www.ukri.org/councils/esrc/ (grant number ES/P000681/1) and grant from the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section to JL and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/ (grant number ECF-2019-416) to AB. Role of the funding source: Funders had no influence on the study.

PLOS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0322469

This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia

30-Apr-2025

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Cognitive Development Health and Medicine Psychological Science Social Development Social Surveys

Article Information

Journal
PLOS One
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0322469
Article Publication Date
2025-04-30
Article Title
This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2025, April 30). U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/19N76ZR1/uk-adults-with-face-blindness-reveal-the-daily-challenges-of-the-condition-with-a-third-reporting-being-unable-to-reliably-recognize-immediate-family-members-and-41-unable-to-recognize-closest-friends.html
MLA:
"U.K. adults with face blindness reveal the daily challenges of the condition, with a third reporting being unable to reliably recognize immediate family members and 41% unable to recognize closest friends in out-of-context or unexpected encounters." Brightsurf News, Apr. 30 2025, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/19N76ZR1/uk-adults-with-face-blindness-reveal-the-daily-challenges-of-the-condition-with-a-third-reporting-being-unable-to-reliably-recognize-immediate-family-members-and-41-unable-to-recognize-closest-friends.html.