prosopagnosia

Johnny Angel · 08-13-2010, 07:10 PM

Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact... Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use 'piecemeal' or 'feature by feature' recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, hair color, body shape, and voice. Because the face seems to function as an important identifying feature in memory, it can also be difficult for people with this condition to keep track of information about people, and socialize normally with others.

What would be a good way to model prosopagnosia as GURPS disadvantage?

The easiest way would seem to be to treat it as a less severe version of Blindness, but there seems to be a little more involved than that.

08-13-2010, 07:10 PM	#1
Johnny Angel MIB Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Pennsylvania	prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact... Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use 'piecemeal' or 'feature by feature' recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, hair color, body shape, and voice. Because the face seems to function as an important identifying feature in memory, it can also be difficult for people with this condition to keep track of information about people, and socialize normally with others. What would be a good way to model prosopagnosia as GURPS disadvantage? The easiest way would seem to be to treat it as a less severe version of Blindness, but there seems to be a little more involved than that.