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face blindness
26 October 2006 15:49Wired: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind_pr.html
Describes the experiences of, and the research concerning, people who are unable to recognize people's faces, either due to injury or a possibly-congenital brain condition--while being able to recognize other types of objects without difficulty.
If you read (and were interested in) Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, read this article. Fascinating stuff.
Describes the experiences of, and the research concerning, people who are unable to recognize people's faces, either due to injury or a possibly-congenital brain condition--while being able to recognize other types of objects without difficulty.
If you read (and were interested in) Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, read this article. Fascinating stuff.
