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Prosopagnosia[1] is a real condition that affects ≈2.5% of people. You might check out "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" if you're interested. [1] https
by dlwh 11y ago
Prosopagnosia[1] is a real condition that affects ≈2.5% of people. You might check out "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" if you're interested.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThanks for the link, I didn't know about this thing. Sacks's book is actually (I think) somewhere on my desk gathering dust, I'll need to get around to reading it. Anyway, in my case it's nowhere near that bad. I can recognize faces with enough exposure, but I have problems remembering them when first seeing, as well as enumerating features, imagining the faces and comparing them between each other. I can do all of that, but it takes a lot of effort and time.