Hello all, I hope, that someone remember the discussion about a book about Faceblindness. I know, that there was a message in htis list about a new book...
mgrueter@...
Aug 1, 2004 11:18 am
1937
Is THIS the book you are talking about? It's online only. http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/ ... From: <mgrueter@...> To: <faceblind@yahoogroups.com> ...
... No, I don't think she means that book. She knows all about that one. :-) I do, however, recall the thread of discussion which brought out the book I ...
Hi Is this the book you are looking for? It is a novel, not in any way a scientific book, but I liked it. ...
Cecilia Burman I usua...
cecilia_burman@...
Aug 2, 2004 8:55 pm
1941
I'm not sure how many people on this list will be interested in this webcast on CVI, but I thought I'd post it just in case. One of the manifestations of CVI...
Michelle Wilson
mlwilson@...
Aug 3, 2004 12:30 am
1942
Hi Folks, I'm a lurker on this list, but while attending a workshop today and after being embarassed 4 or 5 times by people who knew me VERY well and I...
Rod wrote: Has anyone used the new generation of photo cell phones to try to "catalogue" new faces and review them after perhaps downloading them on a ...
DBettis@...
Aug 4, 2004 2:44 am
1944
... This approach might work well if one had the actual capacity to learn to recognize new faces in a fairly easy manner. For those of us more severely ...
That wouldn't work at all for me - to me, people don't look in person anythign like they do in photographs, even if the photograph was just taken. the only...
Hello all, my name is Kat and I'm a freelance writer & editor. I'm extremely myopic with lots of scar tissue in my left eye. I'm wondering how many others...
hi kat, you might want to try alice flaherty's recent book, "the midnight disease". http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/flaherty/ it...
Hi Kat, There has been some recent research that gets at a few of the issues that you raised. When children are born with infantile cataracts in only one eye...
Brad Duchaine
brad@...
Aug 6, 2004 2:33 am
1949
Hi Kat and everyone, Brad's comments are (as always) very interesting!! The only think that I would add is that there may be a possibility that myopia would...
That's a good point about myopia Roz, and your speculation is consistent with something that we've noticed. Among the people who contact us, we seem to have a...
Brad Duchaine
brad@...
Aug 6, 2004 1:49 pm
1951
In a message dated 8/3/04 10:16:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rodmartel@... writes: << Has anyone used the new generation of photo cell phones to try to ...
Hello again & thanks for all the interesting feedback! Actually, Brad, I AM one of those people who responded to your online 'survey.' Your reply then...
Hi Kat, It seems unlikely to me that the scar tissue is causing your prosopagnosia, because it occurred after your visual system had developed. When I...
Brad Duchaine
brad@...
Aug 7, 2004 9:11 pm
1954
... I thought it was some kind of learning disability, but I didn't consider that it might be psychological or emotional. I knew I put too much effort into ...
DBettis@...
Aug 8, 2004 3:19 pm
1955
kat, ... is this a peripheral vision issue? sometimes i make mistakes out of the corner of my eye... recently while driving i caught a firehydrant out of the...
My phone shows me the pictures of my friends who call. But it doesn't really help. I took the pictures with my digital camera, and at the time said, "that's...
Bingo! ... From: "lewisac" <lewisac@...> To: <faceblind@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:21 PM Subject: [faceblind] Re: Use of the new...
Have you guys done this yet? I'd be interested in the results. Head in the beans. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
zusia@...
Aug 13, 2004 6:21 pm
1959
very cool zusia... here's a link (i hope) http://www.okfunnies.com/head_in_beans.html 8 seconds for me. 20 seconds for my 17 year old. 13 seconds for my 13...
... I (NT) did it in less than 10 sec. and Thomas ( PA) was nearly as fast. First I thought, that the beans were supposed to form a face and I found the head...
mgrueter@...
Aug 13, 2004 11:03 pm
1961
... It took me 30 seconds to find it. Yet I can draw very well and art was my best subject. Go figure that one out!...
I didn't time myself when I first saw this about 6 months ago, but it was pretty much instantaneous. My mind is good with pattern recognition, especially when...
I haven't been visiting this site for a while, but when I read the message about the "find the face in the beans" challenge, I expected I would have a hard...
I am a documentary producer working for Tigress Productions in London. I am making a documentary about prosopagnosia and am trying to contact fluent...
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