As a kid I sure could have used one of these... :) Are you boring? This gadget will tell you. A device developed by MIT Media Lab researcher Rana El Kaliouby...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4888528.stm is about weak brain links...hmmmm.... maybe we should all get tested? ... Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to...
I read the article and found it interesting to face blindness. I think you could replace ASD and references to sociability with face blind. ~Bonnie - - - ... ...
In a message dated 4/10/2006 2:57:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, cb_bonham@... writes: I think you could replace ASD and references to sociability with...
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... Was it a genuine lack of interest, or simply a completely different interpretation of faces? I've been personally involved in some research with an MEG...
I can recognize individual coffee cups, office plants, skirts, etc, with much more alacrity than I can faces. A face to me has the same emotional connotations...
I have been having headaches (they now think it has to do with my neck) an had an MRI a couple of weeks ago. The neurologist pointed to a black spot and said...
Interesting, Pedro. It is worth knowing that there's a specific reason for it. Do they think it was congenital or acquired? Or do you know? Dawn On Thu, 13...
In a message dated 4/14/2006 12:21:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, psaavedr@... writes: The neurologist pointed to a black spot and said this was...
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... The two neurologists who saw it guessed it was congenital, but since this was not why I was seeing them they did not speculate further. Except that when I...
... Understood. It is interesting, though. Dawn When you go out and fight for the truth, never wear your best pants. --Henrik Ibson, "Enemy of the People"...
... No. since that was just incidental to my visit. They are still trying to figure out the reason for my headaches, and that is mostly what concerns me now....
In a message dated 4/14/06 3:21:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, psaavedr@... writes: I have been having headaches (they now think it has to do with my ...
Georgetown University Medical Center "...scientists hypothesized that facial recognition does not rely on face-specific mechanisms but instead uses the same ...
... Sorry, I don't buy this paragraph, at least. My brain has been scanned with MEG in a prior study I took part in which suggested that, at least in my case,...
and now that I've read the article, I have one additional comment. ... If this is true, then why can't the shepard I previously mentioned identify human faces?...
I submitted the article partly because I found it a joke and partly because I thought it shows the scientists are as confused as we are about face recognition....
... It seems to me that there is a middle ground, which is that there are very specialized skills which most people use in face recognition but which have...
Gosh this is interesting. This website applies facial recognition software to pictures you can upload from your computer; then compares them to a database of...
Hello, all. I was delighted to find this forum, and wondered if I could ask a few questions of those of you with this unique disorder. My name is Amanda...
People who are faceblind notice other things about people to help them remember them...how they move, the sound of their voice, the shape of some part of their...
Hi Amanda, Welcome to the list. I'm glad to see you're researching the subject, and I'm very glad for the success you've had with his autism. Afraid I can't...
... Be very very careful when using words like "recovered". Autism is not something that goes away. It will be as lifelong to him as my being faceblind has...
Thanks, April -- you shared some very insightful ideas! Especially the coping mechanisms and the "stranger danger" concept. Both are things that I hadn't...
I'm going to ditto most of what Glenn said. All very good points. I have one additional observation to make, though... ... This is very true. I can think of...
...unable to recognize regular playmates when we first encounter them, and just recently one of his teachers changed her hairstyle *** You describe the usual...
To see the musculature movement for facial expressions go to http://www.artnatomia.net/ It is called ArtNatomy. The <Intro> is a complicated tutorial that...
Dawn: Thanks for some excellent ideas and points! I actually think the memory game idea is a great one, especially for his in-home teachers to try with him....
Glenn.... Wow! You have clearly spent some time immersed in my world of autism, or at the very least learned a good deal about it. Thank you for taking the...
... Just a little bit of the former (I have a few traits, but nowhere near enough for a formal ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) diagnosis, which is partly what...
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