Two visually impaired children appeared to have unusually severe difficulty in recognising faces. They were assessed on a variety of non-face and face tasks and it became apparent that only one of them was in fact severely limited in her ability to identify people by face. A series of training programmes, some microcomputer based, was given over an eighteen month period but there was no evidence of any improvement; this is due to the particular brain injury suffered and not to any lack of general intelligence.
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