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:: Thursday, September 06, 2007 ::

Face Blindness

I've always been bad with faces, and Mrs P very good with them Often when watching TV she'll point to obscure actor and say "Hey look, it's the guy that was in that episode of Voyager, where the..." etc. I usually have to wait for them to speak and then identify them by the voice rather than the looks.



I was flicking through a magazine the other day and found this photo. If it wasn't sat along side many other pictures of this famous person there’s no way I would have worked out who it was. So I covered the text underneath it and held it up to ask Mrs P if she knew who it was. She glanced away from World of Warcraft and said, "It's Courtney Love," then turned back to skinning some beast she had just slaughtered. But how did she know. "It's obvious; the lips, the eyes." I, on the other hand, am instantly fooled by something as simple as a hair colour change.

Then, in another magazine, I found this: Identity crisis. "We can all forget a face, but some people draw a blank when looking at their colleagues, friends, even their parents. Alanna Maltby — who once failed to recognise her boyfriend — reports."

I think I may have an acute form of prosopagnosia. At least I have an excuse now.

Labels: Personal, science

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