... From my research face recognition is a fusiform in the right temporal lobe. This fusiform only recognizes faces. Another fusiform recognizes famous faces....
As Bonnie helpfully said, some people with prosopagnosia do have damage to the fusiform gyrus (a small area on the underside of the temporal lobes- just behind...
================================================ Q1: Identification - How do you identify people? Do certain clothes or hair styles make it easier? Do you use...
Hi everyone. Firstly, just a quick thank you to everyone who has helped me so far with answering questions and coming up with a name for the project. I need to...
Oliver Coningham
onefunkydj@...
Nov 2, 2004 4:19 pm
2013
Hi Oliver, Bodamers Report is in German Author - Bodamer Joachim Title - Die Prosop-Agnosie. Journal -- Archiv Psychiatr. und Nervenkrankheiten 179 1947 page...
mgrueter@...
Nov 2, 2004 4:37 pm
2014
... So all these years we've been spelling it wrong! :-) I wonder who first took it upon themselves to "change" the spelling when they were writing in...
... Actually - Ellis and Florence (1990) translated it. It's in the journal 'cognitive neuropsychology', vol. 7, pp 81-105. There is also a shorter version in...
Hi. Just another reminder if people could answer the questions below. It would be really great if you colud answer them, as it is an important part of my...
Oliver Coningham
onefunkydj@...
Nov 4, 2004 10:46 am
2017
hi oliver, please don't take this the wrong way, but i am old enough to have some difficulty taking someone with an email address "onefunkydj@..." very...
... Bill, male (longhaired male), 57. Gettin' lots of gray hair. I was face blind before Bodamer named it Prosop-Agnosie. ... Yes (DP). He is 60. Been...
I have a question about nametags. We had our daughter attend the AM session of a small private school to see if it might be a good place for her. There were...
Mary Zeiler wrote, concerning a researcher who had ... We moderate to keep spam and other inappropriate stuff off. We don't research the authenticity of...
From my own experience, if I know who people are I tend to be a lot friendlier myself and that influences how they like or dislike me. ... From: Michelle...
Up until this point Shangri-La has been very insistent that none of the kids liked her in any of the school she attended, even though this didn't appear to be...
zusia@...
Nov 4, 2004 5:57 pm
2024
<<I can't tell you how many times a brilliant, popular child has come up to me complaining that s/he has no friends, just because on that particular day, the ...
Maybe nametags allowed Shangri-La to have continuous conversations with her classsmates, even if interspersed by pauses in linear time -- you know, say Mary...
She only approached the two children whose nametags were not covered by their coats. So I think the nametags play a part as well. Oh I'm sure the nametags are...
zusia@...
Nov 4, 2004 6:37 pm
2027
Oliver, I have a question for you. I have asked it twice; I am asking again. How do you expect ... In what manner will you ... --Who would give your CD to...
Michelle, Your question is well founded and this group is your best resource. A caring mother should never feel she is "dense" when inquiring how best to make...
... would have to recognize me. I couldn't recognize her because I'm face blind. She told me, "Your crazy!" I've never had the problem of my face blindness...
... It is tough to feel good about someone when you don't know who they are. You have no way to store anything about them in your mind, and this is very...
<<I've never had the problem of my face blindness being believed. I wonder what those of you who do have that problem, have been doing differently.>> We've had...
... Hmmm. My guess is maybe it's tougher for a parent to convince someone their child is face blind, then, than it is for an adult to convince another adult...
I have a long history of having people not beleive me about a lot of things. Medical problems a big case in point. It took decades, yes decades before I could...
On reading below I realise I didnt' say what my health problem was. I suffer from both central and obstructive sleep apnea. I knew I had it before doctors had...
... these ... Good for you. Right will prevail. Shangri-La probably appreciates your efforts. I think it instills confidence when a child realizes someone...
... Maybe it's the people we meet. Mainly people are self-centric. When my daughter was a cute baby in an infant carrier inside a shopping cart a woman came...
... things. Medical problems a big case in point. It took decades, yes decades before I could get them treated properly, the main reason being doctors wouldn't...
<<Do you have the same problem getting people to believe you who do not see themselves as "professionals in working with children"?>> Bill, I'm not sure I'm...