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Case: The Patient Who Cannot Name Faces

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A patient who sees a face clearly and cannot identify whose it is has damage to the temporal lobe.

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The patient describes the eyes, nose, and hair accurately and cannot say the face belongs to their spouse.

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Vision is intact here, which is what rules out the occipital lobe.

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