Tuesday, March 1, 2011

What Happens When You Can't Recognize Faces? [Science]

Casey Chan — Sometimes I have trouble associating names with faces but I'm not as bad as Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and author, who can't recognize any face, including his own. Scientifically speaking, Sacks suffers from a disorder called prosopagnosia, which is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired.
Click to viewIn the video, Sacks comically tells a story about how he assumes he's looking into a mirror when any old man with a beard is in

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