Brain Damage affecting Perception in multiple ways -part 1/2

Brain damages give us a window in the way our brains deal with the outside world.

This concept explained and much more in the documentary series "Brain Story" (2000) by the extraordinary British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://www.bbc.co.uk

Full description of the original documentary series:
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm

Official "brain story" book, companion to the series:
- http://www.amazon.com/BBC-Brain-Story-Unlocking-Emotions/dp/0789478390/ref=sr...

About the author, Susan Greenfield:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Greenfield
or
- http://www.sirc.org/about/susan_greenfield.html

the "whole brain atlas" online:
- http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• QuarksAreStrange
• Brain
• BBC
• Blindness
• Face
• Focus
• Unconscious
• Reality
• Perception
• Neurology

[QuarksAreStrange]

Brain damages give us a window on the way our brain deals with the outside world.

This concept explained and much more in the documentary series "Brain Story" by the extraordinary British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Click the links in the description section for more info.

[majorvoltage]

If physical damage to the brain can alter our perception of the world, why are there still people who believe that their perception is somehow separate from their physical body and will float away to somewhere else when they die?

I recently had a mormon missionary approach me with his religion and when I asked him this, he was utterly unable to respond.

[Fers1296]

my dad has this diseasse. he had an accident playing football and he's now face-blindness. He doesn't even recognize me. The accident happened nearly like a year ago, and he still the same way...

[MrMegaMulp]

I seem to have inherited my fathers partial face-blindness (of around 60% on a test, average person scoring 80%) and you do really struggle to recognise people and sometimes struggle to remember/link names to people. However after seeing that some people have lost their ability to recognise faces almost entirely I feel much more appreciative of the brain, realising that at least I still can recognise a lot.

[evilinjuries]

@majorvoltage Eckhart Tolle said something about us being Human Beings. Human is form, Being is formless. There is some type of "being" within us, something that gives us life. Nobody really knows what happens when we die, not you, not Mormons... period.

[BladesOfMunch]

Every few months, I cannot help but re-watch this clip (along with part 2). A personal favourite of mine, and also one that never fails to intrigue! The brain is beautifully complex.

[miceskin]

I wonder if he can see optical illusions of faces. 

[lifeismasked]

I believe this people can no longer use the left hemisphere to make connection to a face. They use the right hemisphere and logically only see "shapes".

Maybe they should try to cover the right eye.

[MissBRJ]

"this is the nastiest one of all - this is me" That is good humour :) Sweetheart <3

[HitodamaKyrie]

@zackvanhalen He remembers that plates are plate shaped. If you showed him any small saucer shaped object, plate would probably be his first guess. Once he picked it up though, he was able to feel that it wasn't a plate, but that it was a record.

[andysim2k2]

have you ever seen someone you know and it takes u a split second to realize who they really and that you actually know them ? this is kinda how you brain facial recognition process works. Now imagine if that split second was extended to a life time when you see a face you cannot make a distinctions of who that face belongs to..

[liu0313]

oh my goodness!! ='(

that's so sad. . .

I'm so overwhelmed with this grief, of not being able to recognize any face, even one that belongs to the owner..