genetic basis of face recognition

[wispfox]

Any of y'all face blind? Do other members of your family also have trouble with face recognition?

I ask because one of the better known face blindness research teams is, as always, looking for more people with face blindness, _especially_ if multiple members of a family all have it.

So, go fill out their contact form if you're face blind/prospagnosic, especially if others of your family are, too. (it is very likely that the more severe the congenital face blindness, the less likely one is to realize that it's missing. Finding out I had it caused me to ask my mom if she did. She did, but did not realize it)

Comments

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I tend to have a lot more trouble recognizing and remembering faces than most people I know, but once I really know someone I can in fact remember and recognize their face, so, not really, but it's certainly not as easy as it seems to be for others.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

Does it help you at all if I use the icon with my face? I sorta assume that your memory of me fades some with time in any case.

I'm pretty good with face recognition, but not so good with connecting faces with identities. The point about not following TV plots is interesting. I have trouble with some book plots (Jane Austin = impossible) because (I have assumed) there isn't anything visual to hang the identity info on.

[conuly]

I'm not exactly faceblind, but I do say I'm "face visually impaired". I have my moments. (Like the now-infamous time I didn't recognize my own niece and brother-in-law, and I saw them at least once a week!)

But forget faces. What I actually do have trouble with are places. Turn me around, and it looks like I'm somewhere new. That makes life hard.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I believe jodawi is. Should I pass him a link?