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Basically, it means that  a person is unable to recognize objects and faces.
 
Prosopagnosia - Face Blindness

Prosopagnosia
  PsychNet-UK Prosopagnosia Information Sheet - Description, Causation, Treatment, Associated Features, Differential Diagnosis etc.
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Face Blind - Bill Choisser This is a site about face blindness. In these pages you will learn how most people recognize others and then how those with face blindness do. Interesting info on how and why people use vision as a means of emotional and vital survival. You can also learn ways to deal with the disability. The author of this page thoroughly covers the subject matter and provides unique reading material. An Ebook.   5/5
Face Blindness Community Home Page & Information - Information about the "Face-Blindness (Prosopagnosia)" community on LiveJournal. This an open-membership community. 3/5
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Introduction to Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (also known as facial agnosia or face blindness) is difficulty or inability to recognize faces. Evidence suggests that there is an anatomically independent area in the brain dedicated to recognizing faces. Prosopagnosics have a brain dysfunction in that area.  4/5
Prosopagnosia: My Favorite Word - An introduction to and FAQ about a most peculiar condition: Prosopagnosia...not a word one sees very often. As one of the world's few people who actually encounter it on a daily basis, I will attempt to explain it to you.   3/5
Review of Martha Farah, Visual Agnosia - Visual AgnosiaPhilosophical Psychology, 7(1), 1994, 126-29 Martha Farah, Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990). An Article.  3/5
The DRM WebWatcher: Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness) - A listing of Links. 3/5
    
  Agnosia
  PsychNet-UK Agnosia Information Sheet - Description, Causation, Treatment, Associated Features, Differential Diagnosis etc.
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Agnosia Information - NINDS - Agnosiainformation page compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Visual Agnosia - Visual Agnosia Apperceptive Visual Agnosia Cannot recognise by shape Cannot copy drawings Often involves Prosopagnosia Associative Visual Agnosia Can copy but unaware what it is Difficulty in transferring visual info to verbal mechanisms Copy Draw.  2/5
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