Face Blindness: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye

Dr. Sacks talks about people (including himself) who have neurological difficulty recognizing faces, and how they adapt and compensate. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Face Blindness
• prosopagnosia
• brain
• visual recognition
• agnosia
• neurology
• Oliver Sacks

[PauleQueenie]

Do people suffering from face blindness have a lifelong tendency to "speak" for somebody else and therefore do not tend to attribute importance to people's face. and neural development and plasticity r an everyday mechanism. This behaviour would lead to "face blindness" due to lack of volitional recognition and attribution to another face's recognition. In some way a slow progressive erasing of an ability taken over by face blindness. Aside face blindness and increased morphogenesis manipulation

[bodryn]

@bent540 1) I already have prescription glasses 2) this facial recognition thing is something that I noticed a couple decades ago. Thankfully my wife has a great memory for names and faces and always sees people, even when we're driving around.

[Fosius]

@bent540

[citation needed]

it's genetic, really?

[realinterrobang]

I have never been able to recognise faces well. I compensate mostly because I never forget a voice.

[bodryn]

As a young man I had excellent face recognition, but now at retirement age, my facial recognition is not all that good. I usually recognize people best when they are in their normal location. However, my voice recognition is excellent and I can often immediately identify obscure actors or radio speakers by their voices.

[VeraMeat]

You are a hot ticket Oliver Sacks, coming from a mind's point of view. Your mind is an expensive Van Gogh painting that one will never fully grasp but can always enjoy*

[rainbowrez]

Gonna borrow this video for my presentation, Mr. Sacks!