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Prosopagnosia (/ˌproʊsoʊpægˈnoʊziə/) (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact.

There are two types of prosopagnosia: acquired and congenital (developmental).

Acquired prosopagnosia results from occipito-temporal lobe damage and is most often found in adults. This is further subdivided into apperceptive and associative prosopagnosia.

In congenital prosopagnosia, the individual never adequately develops the ability to recognize faces.