Well, when I went off on my travels at the beginning of September there were about half a dozen emails in this list ....... and now I come back to find 134! ...
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nancycambridgema@...
Oct 3, 2001 5:04 pm
AYAAYAYAAY! So I just started a new session (I'm a teacher...) I teach three classes per day...different groups.... Anyway, during my second class, I said to...
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Cecilia Burman
cecilia.burman.fb@...
Oct 3, 2001 7:18 pm
... At least it gave you a chance to explain about face-blindness. :-) I was at a zoo this weekend. I and my brother were going into the aquarium. There was a...
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Nancy Laurie
nancylaurie@...
Oct 3, 2001 7:58 pm
-- Nancy Laurie nancylaurie@... - email (617) 250-0000 x2474 - voicemail/fax ... Nancy: That is pretty embarassing! Wow! That is...well, something...
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Martina Grüter
mgrueter@...
Oct 4, 2001 10:19 am
Hello Nancy, Hello Cecilia, on Friday I had a big headache and sent my husbund to the kindergarten to take her home. I could not drive. The children were...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 4, 2001 7:12 pm
... Martina, probably one reason your daughter didn't recognize her father is because she has been trained (by prior experience) to *expect* to find you there...
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Fiona Creek
camilla_creek@...
Oct 5, 2001 12:13 am
... wrote: > ... When I was away recently I checked into a small hotel early one evening, took my bag up to my room, then went down to the bar for a drink....
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Bill Choisser
bill@...
Oct 5, 2001 7:59 pm
See it here: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/hsn/20010927/hl/face_it_1.html...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 6, 2001 4:52 am
... Glenn: ... ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ Which tells us something interesting. Bill, do you think even the scientists are adapting to our terminology now? A seperate...
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bill@...
Oct 6, 2001 6:39 am
... really have to have very ... findings might someday provide ... to recognize faces easily. ... Absolutely. Our term "face blindness" has stuck. The need...
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jim7416@...
Oct 6, 2001 3:33 pm
I tried coaxing my mouse with some cheese, but it still refused to copy from Glenn's e-mail. I was surprised to see face blind used in the article. I'd ...
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bill@...
Oct 6, 2001 5:36 pm
... The term is also making its way into other languages. Though I cannot read Dutch, this page is named "gezichtsblind.htm" and it appears to introduce and...
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Martina Grüter
mgrueter@...
Oct 6, 2001 6:35 pm
Hi Bill, in German faceblind means Gesichtsblind - but I think it is not the best possible expression for the problem. It is a good word for the public and the...
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bill@...
Oct 6, 2001 7:13 pm
... The German word is very similar to the Dutch, then, as I thought. One difference in how the word feels to you may lie in the wide meaning of the word...
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Nancy Laurie
nancylaurie@...
Oct 6, 2001 8:46 pm
I like the word "face blind" much better. The word "prosopagnosia" is comic to me. It sounds like something out of Mary...
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Nancy Laurie
nancylaurie@...
Oct 6, 2001 8:52 pm
Welcome, Thomas! Your wife has been here for a little while! Glad to see your name here... I can understand your point about the meaning of the word...But...
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Cecilia Burman (tempo...
cecilia_burman@...
Oct 7, 2001 6:38 am
Welcome Thomas I did not realize that you were one of the authors until Nancy pointed it out. I like "face-blind" and I think we should stick with it. If for...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:00 am
... Glenn: Alas, prosopagnosia is not too accurate a description. Actually, lately I've read several places which seem to place different meanings on...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:08 am
... Glenn: I doubt very strongly that it would be anything other than politically incorrect to say, but I should add, nonetheless, that I was laughing ...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:14 am
... Glenn: I asked this question some time ago, and nobody was able to answer it for me at the time. I doubt I'll get any definitive answers one way or the ...
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bill@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:34 am
... Poppins...Supercalifrejisticexpialidocious ... Nancy's comment had me rolling with laughter too. I don't think the Greek nation is so enamored with the...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:36 am
... Glenn: If you ask certain people about this, notably Hubert Cross http://www.lorenasoft.com/asperger/ you might find that the proper expression for...
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bill@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:45 am
... Poppins...Supercalifrejisticexpialidocious ... Nancy's comment had me rolling with laughter too. I don't think the Greek nation is so enamored with the...
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bill@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:45 am
... Bill: From what I understand, they process it all at once, just like you look at a printed word and process it and recognize it all at once. ... Bill: The...
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Glenn Alperin
glenn@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:56 am
... Glenn: Bill, you know how graphical compression works, right? With gif images, for example, the image is compressed based upon the frequency, duration,...
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Cecilia Burman (tempo...
cecilia_burman@...
Oct 7, 2001 8:13 am
... <snip> ... This is the way I understand it: http://www.prosopagnosia.com/pa/index.shtml The brain handles the image in many different ways simultainously,...
-- Nancy Laurie nancylaurie@... - email (617) 250-0000 x2474 - voicemail/fax ... Nancy: Hi, Glenn, I asked a nonfaceblind person this question...
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Nancy Laurie
nancylaurie@...
Oct 7, 2001 9:20 am
This is actually a question from another thread...just wanted to put nonfaceblind in the title...(Glenn had asked this question) What do you, as nonfaceblind...
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Nancy Laurie
nancylaurie@...
Oct 7, 2001 9:24 am
-- Nancy Laurie nancylaurie@... - email (617) 250-0000 x2474 - voicemail/fax ... Hahaaaaha! Thanks! Anyway, you may be older than the word...
