Face blindness

Really neat site about Prosopagnosia :-) also known as face blindness. Some people can't recognize other people, even their best friends or themselves in a mirror! Great tests to see how you do compared with others:

http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/index.php

In the first "Recognition" set of 3 tests, in the face test I only scoring in the 28th percentile but scored in the 55th percentile for objects and somewhere inbetween both those for names.

LOL I was lost three faces in LOL

Try the Famous Faces test!

Thanks for posting this site Perna...what a hoot! It was fun and I'm happy to say that I would recognize someone and remember a name more times than not...not bad for an old lady

faceinating......I lost 4 out of the familiar faces, & 8 out of the unfamiliar....I was very low...only 16 percentile....guess I wouldn't be a very good police person or someone who had to recognize a criminal.

Obects, I did much better....missed 5 out of the familiar & strangly, only didn't recognize that 1 was unfamiliar...55 percentile there

verbal, I did much better....it's more like pattern recognition to me & missed only 2 out of the 12 sets....65 percentile.

My memory recogninzed words & letters better than objects.

Thanks for sharing....this was very interesting test...something very different.
Debbie

lol....I scored 91% in the face recognition...but the names were pathetic. I only got 5 right.

That was interesting. I scored above average on face recognition. My lowest score was on name recognition. No surprise there.

very interesting, we thought it was our whole visual memory that was impaired, but our visual memory for the objects was spot on, it only seems to be the faces

we didn't score as badly as we feared, but badly enough to be sure we are not good with new faces

we actually have quite a funny story about this. When we first joined a very large committee, we took notes on ppls' appearances coz we knew we had a problem with recognizing ppl & attaching the names to the faces. BUt when we got home, nearly all the descriptions read exactly the same except some of them were men & some were women The descriptions of their glasses frames & the womens' rings were much better, but ppl buy NEW glasses, lololol, & they don't wear the rings to cat shows, lololol.

AND we don't have a problem remembering the animals faces & names only the PEOPLE !!!!!

we would like to keep discussing this, coz it seems fairly weird

does anyone have any thoughts on how to improve this ? it can be very embarrassing & inconvenient, especially in a business setting

maybe we could get one of those mobile phones that takes photos & label them

& we DON'T recognize ourself in a mirror, or even in photographs

that's NOT us in the mirror, idk who that is

Face Recognition: 76% correct. (16 percentile rank)
Object Recognition 88% correct. (55 percentile rank)
Verbal Recognition 66% correct. (25 percentile rank)

Zorah, it may not be something you can make better. You may actually have "face blindness". A writer I like, Heather Sellers, wrote a "memoir" about it including a lot of scientific stuff, Face First. But she's the one I got to looking at the test from. She doesn't recognize herself or other people but she's not DID or anything, she has an inherited medical problem.

Face recognition 82% 40th percentile
object recognition 84% 45th percentile
verbal recognition 100% 93rd percentile

poooh, we only score 16th percentile on the facial recognition & 86th percentile on the others

& on the other two facial recognition tests we scored just above the borderline for acknowledged difficulties.

we think we only scored that well on the facial recognition coz we have learned tricks to do it over the years

we'll have to research this further, lolol.

fascinating Perna could it be a symptom of Aspergers Syndrome (not that we have a dx of Aspergers) ? but then why don't we have any trouble recognizing animals faces ? maybe a PTSD thing ? given that our specialization is in consciousness & memory we find this fascinating !!!!!!!! (btw, that isn't necessarily in HUMAN consciousness & memory, lol, a more general field)

we need a post icon for fascination, lol

ok, this could explain why the only way we can describe cars is by their colour

at last we understand why we can never follow the plots of movies

we always have to ask our friends if it is the same person in the next scene they get annoyed

Thanks Perna, this explains soo much !!!!!

Ah ha Zorah you have a similar trouble to me there, good mentioning the films, I too wonder if a person is one I've seen before, because I tend to recognise ppl by their clothing so if they appear in another scene wearing different clothes I tend not to recognise them unless they are noticeable otherwise eg a hair style/ colour which stands out or some other instantly recognisable attribute...