It's not related to language, but this faculty is one of the two canonical examples of perceptual narrowing as infants age. In a study of dog-show judges, Diamond and Carey showed that the inversion effect is not unique to this faculty. Hayden Ellis proposed that this faculty operates without an affective response in people with the Capgras delusion. Inversion strongly impairs this faculty in the (*) Thatcher effect. Nancy Kanwisher proposed that the FFA in the fusiform gyrus specializes in this faculty. This faculty is affected by the other-race effect, in which people are more capable of doing it when interacting with someone of the same race. The story of “Dr. P” is related in an Oliver Sacks book titled for someone with a disorder of this faculty. For 10 points, which faculty is impaired in prosopagnosia? ■END■
ANSWER: facial recognition [accept facial processing or recognizing faces or distinguishing faces or remembering faces or facial memory or facial perception; prompt on object recognition by asking “what objects are being recognized?”] (The editors would like to remind you that Margaret Thatcher is still dead.)
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