News tagged with prosopagnosia
The brain needs to remember faces in 3-dimensions
In our dynamic 3D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2D snapshots ...
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Sep 09, 2010 |
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Can't place that face? The trouble may be in your neurons
A specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 28, 2010 |
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A face is more than the sum of its parts
You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you -- until you realize this person is you. Scenarios like this are impossible for us to imagine, but quite common for sufferers of acquired ...
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Feb 10, 2010 |
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Face recognition ability inherited separately from IQ
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recognizing faces is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it. Some people are unable to recognize even their closest friends (a condition called prosopagnosia), ...
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Jan 19, 2010 |
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'Super-recognizers,' with extraordinary face recognition ability, never forget a face
Some people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University who've discovered a group they call "super-recognizers": those who can easily recognize someone they met ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2009 |
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Delusions associated with consistent pattern of brain injury
A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain delusions and brain disorders ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Scientists offer explanation for 'face blindness'
For the first time, scientists have been able to map the disruption in neural circuitry of people suffering from congenital prosopagnosia, sometimes known as face blindness, and have been able to offer a biological explanation ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Are you phonagnosic?
The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition known as phonagnosia. The UCL team are ...
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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Face blindness research shows emotions are key in the study of face recognition
Recognizing the faces of family and friends is usually an effortless process. However, a minority of people have difficulties identifying the person they are meeting or remembering people they have met before. These problems ...
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Sep 17, 2008 |
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Inability to spot faces may be hereditary
Researchers have found, in the first study into the subject, that the inability to recognize faces is a common, probably hereditary disorder.
Jul 07, 2006 |
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Bees can recognize human faces, study finds
Honeybees may look pretty much all alike to us. But it seems we may not look all alike to them. A study has found that they can learn to recognize human faces in photos, and remember them for at least two days.
Dec 11, 2005 |
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