Researchers launch new study to explore face blindness in children Researchers have launched a new study into a little-known phenomenon that prevents people from recognizing members of their own immediate family or sometimes even their own reflection. Judith Lowes, of the Psychology division at the University of Stirling, is leading the three-year study into developmental prosopagnosia-sometimes referred to as "face-blindness" - which impairs a person's ability to recognize familiar faces. While it may is perceived as unusual, it is relatively common - impacting between one and four percent of children. While previous studies have explored the issue in groups of adults or in individual children, the new project- funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust- will be the largest to develop and test training interventions in groups of children with facial recognition difficulties.