Comments on: The Country of the Face-Blind http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/ The Beautiful Brain Podcast explores the latest findings from the ever-growing field of neuroscience, with particular attention to the dialogue between the arts and sciences. In this monthly program, host Noah Hutton reports on news from the world of brain science, interviews important thinkers about their work, and reviews new literature in the field. The show illuminates important new questions about creativity, the mind of the artist, and the mind of the observer that modern neuroscience is helping us to answer, or at least to provide part of an answer. Instances where art seeks to answer questions of a traditionally scientific nature are also of great interest, and for that reason you will hear from artists as well as scientists on The Beautiful Brain. Subscribe today to receive a brand new episode each month. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-4379 Anonymous Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:46:55 +0000 http://thebeautifulbrain.com/?p=1212#comment-4379 There is something similar to face blindness: "other race effect". With this, people of one race will have a harder time recognizing people of another race. For example, if you made an emergency landing in the middle of Seoul South Korea, unless you're Asian, everyone will seemingly look alike. I found myself on the receiving end of this myself. An Asian supervisor went to another station for 5 weeks. When he left I was, well, white. No problem. During that time I had to work outside for 2 weeks and got a good dark tan. Then, I got my hair real curly in which case I looked like most everyone else in the workplace. (black majority workplace) When that supervisor came back, he failed to recognize me for a WHOLE DAY! The next day he asked who I was, and was shocked at my color and curls. I had fun joking about that supervisor and how "we blacks look all the same", an inside joke among blacks, usually about whites. Oh, I am face blind myself. There is something similar to face blindness: “other race effect”. With this, people of one race will have a harder time recognizing people of another race. For example, if you made an emergency landing in the middle of Seoul South Korea, unless you’re Asian, everyone will seemingly look alike. I found myself on the receiving end of this myself. An Asian supervisor went to another station for 5 weeks. When he left I was, well, white. No problem. During that time I had to work outside for 2 weeks and got a good dark tan. Then, I got my hair real curly in which case I looked like most everyone else in the workplace. (black majority workplace) When that supervisor came back, he failed to recognize me for a WHOLE DAY! The next day he asked who I was, and was shocked at my color and curls. I had fun joking about that supervisor and how “we blacks look all the same”, an inside joke among blacks, usually about whites. Oh, I am face blind myself.

]]> By: Michael White http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-3536 Michael White Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:15:57 +0000 http://thebeautifulbrain.com/?p=1212#comment-3536 Hi. This is an interesting post. That is a fasinating painting! Please post more like it soon. Thank you for posting it! It is quite bright and interesting to look at. Hmm Hi. This is an interesting post. That is a fasinating painting! Please post more like it soon. Thank you for posting it!

It is quite bright and interesting to look at. Hmm

]]> By: More Uses Than You Think : The Beautiful Brain http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-2885 More Uses Than You Think : The Beautiful Brain Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:29:05 +0000 http://thebeautifulbrain.com/?p=1212#comment-2885 [...] prosopagnosia (“face blindness”) in which the ability to recognize faces is damaged. Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close both have this disorder, and apparently there is a large portion of the population that has this [...] [...] prosopagnosia (“face blindness”) in which the ability to recognize faces is damaged. Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close both have this disorder, and apparently there is a large portion of the population that has this [...]

]]> By: Allan http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-2635 Allan Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:23:42 +0000 http://thebeautifulbrain.com/?p=1212#comment-2635 It is difficult to live with it. My face blindness is not as bad as others. There are just certain people I don't recognize no matter how often I see them, and I imagine they think I am a stuck up jerk. It is difficult to live with it. My face blindness is not as bad as others. There are just certain people I don’t recognize no matter how often I see them, and I imagine they think I am a stuck up jerk.

]]> By: Sue http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/06/the-country-of-the-face-blind/comment-page-1/#comment-2005 Sue Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:57:03 +0000 http://thebeautifulbrain.com/?p=1212#comment-2005 Face blindness must be a terrible problem. We can tell so much from the detail in someone's face. To not be able to see that would be very difficult to live with. Face blindness must be a terrible problem. We can tell so much from the detail in someone’s face. To not be able to see that would be very difficult to live with.

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