{"id":2909,"date":"2006-06-14T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/06\/14\/a-face-with-no-name\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T11:19:09","slug":"a-face-with-no-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/14\/a-face-with-no-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Face with No Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8548'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"300\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/fazzez.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"-1\">People with face-blindness, known as prosopagnosia, have trouble<br \/>\n            identifying which of the three faces on the bottom row is the same<br \/>\n          as the person shown in the three photos on the top row<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"justify\">New findings from researchers at Harvard and elsewhere<br \/>\n        suggest that a surprising number of people are face-blind, so bad at<br \/>\n        recognizing faces that they routinely snub acquaintances and have trouble<br \/>\n        following movie plots. In extreme cases, they may greet siblings as strangers<br \/>\n        and struggle to discern which child is theirs at school pick-up time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Face-blind people can see faces perfectly well &#8212; the<br \/>\n        eyes, nose, and mouth &#8212; but seem to have trouble processing what they<br \/>\n        see and placing it into memory to be recalled again. In its rare, extreme<br \/>\n        form, prosopagnosics describe looking into the mirror and being unable<br \/>\n      to recognize themselves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Born prosopagnosics, whose brains are usually normal<br \/>\n        in other respects, often suspect that something is wrong, but cannot<br \/>\n      put a finger on it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourlife\/health\/diseases\/articles\/2006\/06\/14\/when_faces_have_no_name\/\">the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Who is that handsome devil who lives on the other side<br \/>\n        of our bathroom mirror?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with face-blindness, known as prosopagnosia, have trouble identifying which of the three faces on the bottom row is the same as the person shown in the three photos on the top row New findings from researchers at Harvard and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/14\/a-face-with-no-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}