Fleassy Malay is a spoken word artist from the UK who has prosopagnosia, or face blindness. Prosopagnosia is a neurological condition where a person is unable to recognize faces, including those of familiar people. It affects around 2% of the population and is caused by damage or abnormalities in the fusiform gyrus area of the brain, which is responsible for facial recognition. People with prosopagnosia may have trouble recognizing friends and family, following movie plots, and feeling comfortable in crowds. While there is no cure, treatment focuses on developing compensatory strategies to help identify people using other cues. This class helped provide understanding of the condition and those who have it.

1. MADE BY LEO LIN
Prosopagnosia
How being Face-Blind
made it easier to see
people

3. Highlights and Insights
Topics Summary
Summary of Fleassy Malay
Introduction of Prosopagnosia
Symptoms, etiology and treatments
Fusiform gyrus
From this class....

4. Fleassy Malay
WhoamI?
Fleassy Malay. Fleassy Malay is an
Internationally renowned, evocative and
powerful spoken word artist from the UK.
She is a Prosopagnosia patient. Having
issues of definning the person in front of her,
Malay exerpeienced a hard time of social
connections.

5. - FLEASSY MALAY
"I have been known to spend hours lost
in the face of my lover. Just tracing the
contours with my fingertips as if they
were a map and I was trying to learn a
landscape."

6. Statistics
OF THE WORLD
POPULATION MAY AFFECT
UP TO 2 PERCENT OF THE
POPULATION –
SUGGESTING THAT
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE MAY
BE FACE-BLIND
2%

7. a neurological condition characterized by
the inability to recognize the faces of
familiar people
What is Prosopagnosia?
People with face blindness may struggle to
notice differences in faces of strangers. Others
may even have a hard time recognizing familiar
faces.

8. Causes of
Prosopagnosia
certain
neurodegenerative diseases
traumatic
brain injury
stroke
Prosopagnosia is thought to be
the result of abnormalities,
damage, or impairment in the
right fusiform gyrus

9. Fusiform Gyrus
The fusiform gyrus is a large region in
the inferior temporal cortex that plays
important roles in object and face
recognition, and recognition of facial
expressions

11. The Functions of Fusiform Gyrus
ENTAILS HIGHER
PROCESSING OF
VISUAL INFORMATION
Ex. the identification and
differentiation of objects
FACIAL
RECOGNITION
MULTISENSORY IN
TEGRATION,
PERCEPTION.activated in imaging studies
when parts of faces or
pictures of facial expressions
are presented
The fusiform gyrus communicates with the visual pathway
and angular gyrus, allowing the association of colors and shapes.

12. 4 Stages of Processing
And Recognition of
Visual Information
Color processing
Face recognition
Body recognition
Word recognition
Identification of features
within each category
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

13. Prosopagnosia
Symptoms
BECOME CLINGY OR WITHDRAWN IN
PUBLIC PLACES
Appears "lost" in crowded places or at large
gatherings
FAIL TO RECONGIZE FAMILIAR PEOPLE
Unable to identify an unexpectedly encountered
familiar person. Walks past/accidentally ignores
familiar people in public settings. A relative ease
in recognising people in expected contexts
CONFUSES CHARACTERS IN FILMS, TV
SHOWS OR PLAYS.
have difficulty following plots of characters in
mass media(movies, TV shows, etc.)

14. Treatments for Prosopagnosia
The focus of any treatment should be to help the individual with prosopagnosia
develop compensatory strategies. Adults who have the condition as a result of
stroke or brain trauma can be retrained to use other clues to identify individuals.

15. Taught us to respect,
understand and help
with their hardships
We get a better
understanding about
the causes, symptoms
of those neurological
diseases. which makes
it eaiser to get along
with the patients
From This Class....