The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face

Re:The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face by pbo on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:00AM (#5658231)

This reminds of a fascinating book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks.

One of the most interesting stories is about a man who lost his ability to intuitively recognize things and needs to reason about their features to find out what they are.

  This is my shoe, no?
  No, it is not. That is your foot. There is your shoe.
  Ah! I thought that was my foot.

Whole excerpt here: http://www.odysseyeditions.com/EBooks/Oliver-Sacks/The-Man-W...

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Re:The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face by ryanmolden on Sunday May 05, 2013 @10:38AM (#5658429)

Currently reading Hallucinations. His coverage of such bizarre conditions as Akinetopsia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinetopsia) make his books great reads for the casually curious and really make it concrete how much of our reality is formed primarily in our heads.

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Re:The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face by lobster_johnson on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:45AM (#5658322)

One of my favourite non-fiction books. His other books, such as Awakenings, are also wonderful.

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