Dear all, Some of you may have read my posts before, but for those who have not, my name is Oliver Coningham and I am a student from Bournemouth University in ...
Oliver Coningham
onefunkydj@...
Jul 1, 2005 1:19 pm
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Oliver, The site looks very nice. Although I have DSL, Flash loads very slowly and I lost patience, so did not finish viewing. Isn't there some way of speeding...
It also has Active_X controls that my firewall blocks, so I have no idea what I am missing. I also cannot access anything that is a pop-up window that is coded...
Oliver, My comments.... Content: A superb overview of what living with face blindness is all about! Sound: I will have to visit it again at a less-early hour...
Is there any way to tell what to do to get on to the next page? I found myself clicking all over things to see if I could escape the page I'd already read,...
Oliver, I enjoyed it greatly, and the easter-eggy quality was a plus for me (but then I'm a gamer <g>) -- reminded me a bit of how I felt when I realized there...
... Using faces alone, I don't feel one's skills can ever get better. What I was speaking of, was developing skills with features that you CAN process. In my...
Long hair is often mentioned as an identifier. A recent post contained this link to a picture of one of our long-haired members and his long-haired friend. ...
... Hmm. I'm feeling like I want a word or phrase that means ``key traits'' but also applies to recogniting emotions in those key traits, and the words ``key...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Jul 2, 2005 7:52 pm
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... When I first saw that photograph, I also thought the person on the right had short hair. I think part of the issue is that the hair from the person on the...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Jul 2, 2005 8:57 pm
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... It certainly is best around the face, for me. Note that mine always is. But to some extent I also can identify hair in the back. This guy's is...
... I'd qualify that last item to say "faces when enabled by appropriate non-facial features". Check my e-mail replying to Bonnie that I'm sending at the same...
hi joel, while an exaggerated feature can certainly help many people identify an individual, it's currently thought that faces are apprehended as a "whole" and...
... Yeah, Mary, Brad told me less than half of the people he's found face blind are also impaired with facial emotion. I thought I was one of the unimpaired...
Did any of the adults on this list ever have trouble telling their mother from their father until they spoke? Our daughter seems to be having trouble doing...
What similarities do you and your husband have? If you were to look at your silhouettes would it be easier to imagine what your daughter sees? My parents and...
... We look as different can get. Our skin tones are diffferent. My husband is bald. The only feature we have in common is that we both wear glasses. When...
If she's ... *** ... *** Ah, but, you apparently don't look differently to SL. Where is her eye level on your body? When I grew up in the late 1950's men's...
My mother-in-law had a problem with peoples names as she aged. She knew who we were but would frequently call us by anyone's name she associated us with....
In a message dated 7/2/2005 5:11:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, mlwilson@... writes: Did any of the adults on this list ever have trouble telling their...
zusia@...
Jul 3, 2005 2:17 am
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<<Michelle-- this is extremely odd-- you guys look nothing alike.>> We agree with that! That's why we are scratching our heads. <<Has ShangiLa had her...
... I haven't noticed anywhere where it doesn't (other than the specific issue of seeing women whose hairstyle resembles someone I would recognize, but who...
Joel N. Weber II
jwfby@...
Jul 3, 2005 2:20 am
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<<Could it be some sort of situation where she is transposing words for you and him? >> That's what we thought at first, but that doesn't seem to be the case. ...
In a message dated 7/2/2005 7:20:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, mlwilson@... writes: Extensively, since she's been two. This doesn't appear to be a word ...
zusia@...
Jul 3, 2005 2:24 am
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... school photos and seen the number of kids that wore their hair over one eye??<< I remember being very attracted to a kid in my class in the 5th grade who ...
... SL stands just below my shoulder. ... Her acuity is 20:20. A recent field test, although incomplete, revealed the fact she has a field loss on the left...
In a message dated 7/2/2005 7:23:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, mlwilson@... writes: We would think that, too, but she's always done this. We just didn't pay...
zusia@...
Jul 3, 2005 2:28 am
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<< And nothing showed up on language testing? Recently? Testing at earlier ages ... The only thing that showed up on the test she had last night was very ...
Ah! If she's always done this-- how have you handled it? Sounds like she ... Maybe. Except she also mixes up the two neighbor kids if they are both sitting...