Comments | bridgetester: [science, psychology] Face Blind

bridgetester

[science, psychology] Face Blind

Nov 25, 2006 17:24

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Face Blind
Joshua Davishttp://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind.htmlRead more... )

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Comments 9

kateshort November 25 2006, 22:52:11 UTC

Wow. This was fascinating. Thanks for the article.

maidenus November 25 2006, 23:47:13 UTC

Fascinating....

I wonder if being able to copy things down is perhaps related? I know that I, for one, not only have trouble with faces but also copying down certain things, like copying down certain features of a person's face. I remember that it took me over a month to be able to pick my SO out in a crowd, and a few weeks to learn the faces of my adoptive parents; however, once I see a face, I can pick it out easily in a crowd; I just can't remember it in my mind's eye. I wonder if perhaps concussions can cause things like that, the way that they do aphasia?

lady_angelina November 25 2006, 23:52:45 UTC

After having taken the two tests that the faceblind.org site links to, I think I might have this to some degree. ^^;; I often do have some trouble recognizing certain people, especially if I haven't been around them a whole lot. Although, names are harder for me to remember.

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kateshort November 26 2006, 01:31:16 UTC

I got a whopping 93% on the famous faces (!!!) but 70% on the non-familiar faces. I just pressed "1" a whole hell of a lot. :)

carandol November 26 2006, 02:35:18 UTC

There was a program on the BBC world service about this a few weeks ago. Personally, I have no trouble with faces -- but putting a name to a face I find very difficult. Even people I've seen every week at university for a couple of years, I have trouble with. And if I see a person out of context (like someone I normally meet in the greengrocers, in a pub instead) I have trouble remembering where I know them from. I did fine on the recognising faces test, but on the famous people test, I knew *exactly* who they were, but couldn't remember their names for the life of me. With film stars, I usually remember who they are, right up until the moment I have to mention their name, at which point I forget not only their name but the names of all the films they ever been in. As soon as someone says "who was in the movie?" instead of saying "Harrison Ford", I'm flapping around saying "Oh...that guy...he was in that film...you know......he had a hat...he drew a gun on a guy with a sword...there were Nazis...a whip...snakes...and that...you know ( ... )

bridgetester November 26 2006, 04:41:19 UTC

Yeah, I'm a lot closer with the image recognition for "actors"/acquaintances vs name recognition for "authors". It depends on what context I know the person from.

Oh...that guy...he was in that film...you know.. sheherazahde November 26 2006, 07:01:31 UTC

Yes! Exactly! I know just what you mean.

(have you seen the new Home Depot ad with the woman who doesn't know the names of things she just describes them?)

leora November 26 2006, 04:16:01 UTC

My father and I both have this to some degree, but not such an extreme degree that I generally mention it. We both just routinely didn't try to make friends with kids at school, since we couldn't keep track of who was whom. I utterly dreaded and hated beyond all ability to say when a teacher chose me to hand back papers. Passing out papers to be filled in was fine, since everyone gets the same thing, but if I had to hand out completed assignments, there was just no way to know who got which one ( ... )