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 * **Cognition** || the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. ||
 * **Physiology** || the physical bases of psychological processes ||
 * **Prosopagnosia** || a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired ||
 * **Fusiform Gyrus** || part of the brain responsible for the following localized functions # processing of color information
 * 1) processing of color information
 * 2) face and body recognition
 * 3) word recognition ||

When cognitive functions and physiology interact with each other the reaction can take one of many forms.The brain is unpredictable and these reactions can be erratic, abnormal, subtle, or downright psychotic.



**Cognition**
The functioning of your brain that determines the psychological reaction of our perception, learning, and how we reason. It is basically the inner workings of the brain that we can't feel or touch, but only study and record.

Physiology
The actual physical aspects of the brain and body that can have effects on behavior. This aspect of psychology is the part you can physically see, examine, and study. This also includes the actual functions that are a result of our physical make-up.

So How Do They Interact?
One such example could be the disorder // **Prosopagnosia** // or simply //Face Blindness.// This disorder impairs the ability for the brain to recognize a face. Depending on the severity of the physiological aspect of the disorder, it can determine the cognitive function of how your brain and memory work. The physiological factor that causes this disorder is usually either a tumor or having the //Fusiform Gyrus// part of the brain removed. When you are unable to remember a face it could have monumental effects on your behavior. A best friend, a loved one and you can't remember their face. The amount of people you associate your self with would most likely dwindle.

(Until recently it has been thought that the actual disorder itself was solely dependent on physiology. Recent studies have revealed that it can be a cognitive effect inherited from a parent.)

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