I get that people with it can’t tell the difference between faces, but why? What part of their brain isn’t working properly? How does it translate to face blindness?
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Fusiform gyrus (a region within the temporal lobe, basically by your temple).
It’s basically the “individual” recognizer of the brain, so with humans it’s faces, but the equivalent region in zebras gets triggered with stripe patterns (like barcodes) so with face blindness, this area doesn’t work as it would typically.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_gyrus
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