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In severe cases an examining physician will be able to hold up a photograph of him or herself and,
在嚴重的情況下，檢查的醫生會拿著一張自己的照片，
seated in front of the patient with facial agnosia, ask if they recognize this person—to no avail.
坐在面孔失認癥患者的前面，詢問他們是否認識這個人，但是完全不起作用。
What's especially interesting to researchers about this condition is its specificity.
使研究者覺得極為有趣的是這種病癥的獨特性。
Visual ability itself is not damaged and the person with facial agnosia can still anything else—except a face.
在視覺功能良好的情況下面孔失認癥患者除了臉其他什么都仍能識別。
They can still describe faces very accurately, but only in the way one describes an object: "He needs a shave. He has droopy eyes. He has a small scar."
他們還能十分準確的描述面部特征，但是也僅限于描述具體對象：他胡子太多了，他眼袋太大，他臉上有個小疤等等。
But never Wait a minute—this is my high school yearbook picture.
但是患者從不會有這樣一刻：等等，這不是我高中時的年刊照片嗎。
Facial agnosia strongly suggests the existence of a mechanism in the brain devoted specifically to recognizing individuals we've seen before,
面孔失認癥強有力的證明了大腦中有這樣的特殊機制存在，它會專門致力于去辨別我們以前所見過的人，
a mechanism thought to exist in many other animals and even some insects.
而其他動物甚至昆蟲也可能擁有這種特殊機制。
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