Face recognition fail

[shagungu]

My congenital prosopagnosia (face blindness) must really be kicking in -- I figure that the people
in the Buckleup meme October banner must be Chris Pine and Karl Urban, but I can't make
my brain recognize them:

http://buckleup-meme.livejournal.com/8433.html

Comments

[janice_lester]

I had trouble too. I mean, I recognise Chris's outfit, wig, etc., I know what movie it's from... and there's something familiar about the other guy's eyes... but I just don't recognise them. Can't make them resolve into Chris and Karl. Weird.

[shagungu]

Glad I'm not the only one! Do you often have trouble with faces? I can never tell when it is just my own idiosyncratic brain.

I wonder if this is partly why I am not very interested in fan art and/or pictures of actors, but really like fiction....

[janice_lester]

I seem to have a bit more trouble than most people, yeah. I sometimes get confused in movies when there are two youngish male protagonists with the same colour hair--following the plot rests on being able to tell them apart, and no one else seems to be having any trouble, but I'm lost. :-|

[shagungu]

Yes -- young adult Caucasian males with medium brown short hair are the worst! I get lost often, both in movies and real life

[syredronning]

*reads about anomia* I hope you don't have that very strong, it sounds like something a professor would have a hard time dealing with ♥

[shagungu]

I've always had some trouble with verbal fluency in general, and coming up with the right word in particular. Tied into being shy as well, I expect. As a professor, I make sure I have something caffeinated before I go and lecture -- that really helps :) My shyness has gotten somewhat better as I have grown older, and I think that helps too. I still have times when I get stuck and have a lot of trouble getting the words out, though.

Anomia is a normal part of growing older, and is one of the things that older adults complain about the most. Related to the tip of the tongue phenomena, which some of my memory colleagues are interested in...

Even more frustrating are the paraphasias (word substitutions) -- I can say the completely wrong word and not notice, and my students can get very confused. Sometimes I even write the wrong word and don't notice. A few classic ones: April and August, Cornell and Columbia, vesicle and ventricle.... I've made each of these errors multiple times.