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Given and Opportunity to Share on Psychology Today's Website

wsquared77 wrote 12 hours ago: As I’m sure you can imagine, the “family” of those who have prosopagnosia is a pretty small one, and … more →

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Mindscapes: The woman who can't recognise her face

a1000shadesofhurt wrote 2 days ago: Mindscapes: The woman who can’t recognise her face Heather Sellers has prosopagnosia, more com … more →

Tags: Neuroscience/Neuropsychology/Neurology

Do I know you?

rnalliah wrote 5 days ago: What would you do if one day you walked into your house and there were strangers there? If you kept … more →

Tags: Burwood Friday 12pm, Autism, Biology, brain, electrical brain stimulation, face blindness, functional magnetic resonance imaging, fusiform gyrus

Getting Away With It - A Short Detective Story

cmdrysdale wrote 5 days ago: A PDF of this story can be downloaded from here. Constable Wainwright glanced up as door of the smal … more →

Tags: Life, Short Stories, writing, face blindness, Short detective story, Short Fiction, Short Story

Doubts that legendary memory performer had any advice for prosopagnosics

C. Wright wrote 1 week ago: On the weekend we visited “the hills”. Communities in picturesque forest locations a bit … more →

Tags: Harry Lorayne, Memory, Memory Training, Mnemonists, Names, Personal, Person-recognition system, Western Australian Locations

Prosopagnosia: Facial Blindness

elf50 wrote 2 weeks ago:   The only thing I remember about family events as a child with my mother’s family was being b … more →

Tags: face blind, facial blindness, Fusiform

Oh look! Article in fascinating "Mindscapes" series in New Scientist about prosopagnosia

C. Wright wrote 2 weeks ago: Autobiographer Heather Sellers is profiled, prosopagnosia is described, leading face memory research … more →

Tags: Angela Gosling, ba44, ba8, BRAD DUCHAINE, Bradley Duchaine, Brain Journal, chiara renzi, Claus-Christian Carbon, Covert Face Recognition

Visual face processing abilities missing from a whiz-bang super-duper online American occupations database

C. Wright wrote 2 weeks ago: The O*NET OnLine occupations database is a very impressive career counselling tool, but I think face … more →

Tags: Career Counselling, Face Memory, face recognition, holland codes, Holland Occupational Themes, Interests in Career Preferences, Jobs, John Holland psychologist, John L. Holland psychologist

Be More: Congenial

Bill wrote 2 weeks ago: Am I the only person on my bus who says “Good morning” to the driver? Sometimes, but not … more →

Tags: Balance, Career, Commuting, Culture, FEAR 2, fulfillment, networking, office life, Progress

New Google Glass Technology Could Make Recognizing People Easier

melaniechen42 wrote 3 weeks ago: Don’t you just hate it when you can’t remember someone’s name, even if you only sa … more →

Tags: Technology and Research, Research, The Minds Eye

Honored To Have Presented10 comments

FindingStrengthToStandAgain wrote 1 month ago: I took a short time off from blogging to prepare for and attend The Examined Life Conference: Writin … more →

Tags: Memories, Art, Communication, Education, ~ EPILEPSY 2, Examined Life Conference, face blindness, seizure disorder, Seizures

Ear recognition the key, not face recognition?

C. Wright wrote 1 month ago: One of the stories on 60 Minutes (Australian) a couple of weeks ago was interesting in terms of the … more →

Tags: face recognition, eyes, Face Memory, Non-face Recognition, police, 60 Minutes, Visual Recognition in Law Enforcement, Forensic Evidence, Ears

Special journal issue about prosopagnosia last year

C. Wright wrote 1 month ago: The full text of an introduction to this special issue can be found at the link. The authors of the … more →

Tags: Bradley Duchaine, BRAD DUCHAINE, Romina Palermo, cognitive neuropsychology

Once again, super-recognizers to be found in comments

C. Wright wrote 1 month ago: There are comments from people who claim to have super-recognizer ability at the below-linked articl … more →

Tags: Australian Prosopagnosia Participant Register, Chuck Close, Comments, famous people, Jane Goodall, Karl Kruszelnicki, Macquarie University, Oliver Sacks, Romina Palermo

Faces

tsiegworth80 wrote 1 month ago: A short film I made for an intro level film and video course. It is about a man who suffers from a r … more →

Tags: fiction films, face recognition

Prosopagnosia (semi-continued)

melaniechen42 wrote 1 month ago: Scientists used to think that prosopagnosia was a “selective” deficit of face recognition, meaning t … more →

Tags: Neurological disorder, Research, The Minds Eye, Neuroscience, Neurological Disorder

What Prosopagnosia Tells Us About The Brain

melaniechen42 wrote 1 month ago: You’re looking into a sea of rocks. One of them kisses you on the cheek and tells you it’s dinner, s … more →

Tags: Neurological disorder, The Minds Eye, Neuroscience, Neurological Disorder

The Mind's Eye

nliakos wrote 1 month ago: by Oliver Sacks (Knopf, 2010) Oliver Sacks doesn’t disappoint. I love his writing and try to r … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science, Oliver Sacks, brain, sight, Vision, Alexia, Neurology, blindness

Prosopagnosia.....say what?!?2 comments

wsquared77 wrote 1 month ago: Have you heard of Prosopagnosia before? Many people haven’t, even medical and psychological professi … more →

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