People recognition no longer recognising a person

I have been working my way through my digital photographs, tagging them with Photoshop Elements 8. I am using the People Recognition feature to tag photos with who is in them and it works very well most of the time.
There is, however, one person that it used to recognize in photos and now never recognizes. I am never presented with the prompt "Which of these people is not XXX?" for this person, nor does it ever suggest this person as one of the three most likely faces when asking me "Who is this?". Both of these features seem to work fine for everybody else in my people tags.
The person in question is in an awful lot of my photos so it is turning out to be a real pain.
Can anybody suggest a way for me to fix this?

Several of us have observed that as you tag more and more faces of a given person, the recognition gets worse. I think that Adobe may have chosen an inappropriate "learning" algorithm that, as you tag more and more instances of person, builds up an "average" set of facial features that are more and more generic (average) and less unique to that person. This negative feedback loop gets worse if you tag the "poor" occurrences of the person's face (partially obscured, in profile, too small, poor lighting, etc.). (And of course, the whole point of tagging is to identify each face!)
To see if this is what's happening to you: Create a brand new tag for that person, e.g. "Jane Doe 2", and use that tag exclusively on all new pics of her. Does face recognition for her get better, at least temporarily? Unfortunately, there is no way to merge all the recognized faces of two tags together -- you can assign "Jane Doe 2" to all the pics currently assigned with "Jane Doe" and then delete "Jane Doe", but you'll lose all the face rectangles identifying the occurrences of Jane Doe within the pics.

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