What is it like to be face blind? With Joe DeGutis, PhD, and Sadie Dingfelder

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

After a lifetime of thinking that she was just a little bit bad at remembering people, Sadie Dingfelder learned that she had prosopagnosia, a disorder more colloquially known as face blindness. Harvard psychologist Joe DeGutis, PhD, who runs the research study that Dingfelder participated in, joins her to discuss how people with face blindness see the world, why it\u2019s such an interesting disorder to study, and promising treatments that his lab is exploring.\xa0\n Are you enjoying Speaking of Psychology? We\u2019d love to know what you think of the podcast, what you would change about it, and what you\u2019d like to hear more of. Please take our listener survey at www.apa.org/podcastsurvey.\n Links Joe DeGutis, PhD Boston Attention and Learning Lab Music\n "Mystery" by ispeakwaves courtesy of freesound.org\n Sponsor\n APA 2020 Virtual\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices