{"id":6942,"date":"2016-12-03T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2016-12-03T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:15:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/03\/word-of-the-day-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prosopagnosia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Prosopagnosia<\/b> <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02cc\/ secondary stress follows\">\u02cc<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"'r' in 'rye'\">r<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0251\u02d0\/ 'a' in 'father'\">\u0251\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'s' in 'sigh'\">s<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/ 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u00e6\/ short 'a' in 'bad'\">\u00e6<\/span><span title=\"'g' in 'guy'\">\u0261<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/o\u028a\/ long 'o' in 'code'\">o\u028a<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0292\/ 's' in 'pleasure'\">\u0292<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/ 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prosopagnosia#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> (Greek: &#8220;prosopon&#8221; = &#8220;face&#8221;, &#8220;agnosia&#8221; = &#8220;not knowing&#8221;), also called <b>face blindness<\/b>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-faceblindness_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prosopagnosia#cite_note-faceblindness-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> is a cognitive disorder of <a title=\"Face perception\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Face_perception\">face perception<\/a> where the ability to recognize familiar <a title=\"Face\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Face\">faces<\/a>, including one&#8217;s own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute <a title=\"Brain damage\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain_damage\">brain damage<\/a> (acquired prosopagnosia), but a <a title=\"Congenital disorder\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congenital_disorder\">congenital<\/a> or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the population. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prosopagnosia\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Encountered in the <em><strong>Letters<\/strong><\/em> column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosopagnosia: Prosopagnosia \/\u02ccpr\u0251\u02d0s\u0259p\u00e6\u0261\u02c8no\u028a\u0292\u0259\/[1] (Greek: &#8220;prosopon&#8221; = &#8220;face&#8221;, &#8220;agnosia&#8221; = &#8220;not knowing&#8221;), also called face blindness,[2] is a cognitive disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one&#8217;s own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/03\/word-of-the-day-50\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}