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Pandora Parrot ([personal profile] pandora_parrot) wrote2009-10-07 11:29 am
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Pic-A-day!

Here's a few pic-a-day pics from the past few days. I've missed a day or two, but I'm still working on it! :)

October 3rd, 2009:
[livejournal.com profile] viesti, [livejournal.com profile] chainsaw_hime, and [livejournal.com profile] danagrrl took me to my first Rennaissance Fair.
From Pic-A-Day 365


October 4th, 2009
OOPS! I forgot to grab a photo this day.

October 5th, 2009
Coding night with Andrea! That there is the game we're working on. She's trying to fix a bug.
From Pic-A-Day 365


October 6th, 2009
I got an fMRI done as part of a study of prosopagnosiacs.
From Pic-A-Day 365
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[identity profile] paradox-puree.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Prosopagnosia has only recently been recognized as a distinct neurological condition in people. As such, the methods of analyzing it have yet to be fully refined. I've found, for example, that if you show me a photo of someone, I can recognize that exact photo pretty easily. But if you show me a photo of someone and then a different photo of the same person in a different pose, I have a hard time telling if the two are the same or not.

How did they text you, out of curiosity?

[identity profile] stormdog.livejournal.com 2009-10-08 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
They showed me a bunch of faces with the head-hair cropped out or removed somehow. Just bare faces. Then they showed me a bunch more faces and I had to decide which of them were ones I had already seen. I think they were from different angles on the same person and other changes between pictures too.

Looking at them I had only the vaguest ideas, if any idea at all, about which of them looked familiar. But supposedly my results were pretty normal.

[identity profile] paradox-puree.livejournal.com 2009-10-08 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Some people think there's a bell curve of facial recognition abilities. Perhaps you're within the lower range of normal or something? I'm definitely outside the norm, but I'm not TOO too bad at it... My test results seem to show I'm about middle of the range as far as prosopagnosiacs go. I'm right in between the worst face-blind people and normal people, or something.
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