Face blindness and artists (prosopagnosia)

[AnnaLandin]

Oh! I don't know if I have faceblindness, but I definitely can't do that. Trying to picture anything in my mind, invented or remembered, is like a very near-sighted person trying to squint at a thing across the street -- the details just aren't there to see.

Like I said, it's the only prosopagnosia-trait I have - I have no problem remembering the details, I just can't make them come together in my head. It's like one of those join-the-dots drawings, where the dots just don't join up the way they're supposed to. >.<

Recognising people is no problem - they're stored in my memory the way they're supposed to, and I have no problem keeping actors in movies straight, etc. It's just the imagining them when they're not in front of me bit that trips me up.

Brains sure are weird!

[me607]

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[cares677]

So, it's very possible that you've had celebrity sightings (living in Hollywood), but not realized it! SO interesting!

[amayalacombe]

Hi everyone!

In school I'm working on a project and experience to see if people with prosopagnosia see faces differently than other people. I want to analyse how different people with the condition and without look at faces. The experiment is very simple, you just need a computer. If you have Prosopagnosia and would like to take part in my experiment, that would be great!
Thank you so much
Amaya

[joannekwan]

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