House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson of Connecticut said Republicans in Congress are suffering from “prosopagnosia” or the inability to recognize faces. To support his diagnosis, Larson referenced a New York Times article describing the condition.
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‘It’s a new year. We’re going to give our colleagues the benefit of the doubt. That’s why we’re here with our sleeves rolled up and prepared to work. It has been suggested to me, and confirmed by The New York Times just the last week in the science section, that what may in fact be impacting our colleagues on the other side of the aisle is that they have ‘prosopagnosia,'” he said at the Capitol on Thursday.
“Now that, for you out there in the audience, means this: It’s a blindness that they have. It is a blindness that also works in a way that you don’t recognize people’s voices. How else can you not hear the plea of 14 million Americans that are out of work who need to be put back to work?”
According to the New York Times report, “one of the keys to understanding face recognition” is how the brain recognizes voices.