Mind Hacks:

[jason]

Ex-Lemmingworks. ##.

I always read mindhack, just for the curious little blurbs on how the mind might work. This article is of personal value, as those who know me can imagine. Nice to have a name for things like that. Mind Hacks: Time magazine on prosopagnosia:

The curious condition of prosopagnosia (something referred to - somewhat incorrectly - as ‘face blindness’) is featured in a short article in Time.

Prosopagnosia is a term used to refer to quite a broad range of neuropsychological difficulties that impair people from recognising others by their face, despite the fact that they may recognise them by other features (such as by voice, or even by a distinctive tatoo) and have little trouble with recognising non-face objects.

The article focuses on recent findings that prosopagnosia can result from inheriting genetic traits, rather than only from brain injury, as was previously thought.

For years, prosopagnosia was associated with damage to the fusiform gyrus and was considered quite rare owing to the fact that this brain structure is quite protected from most sorts of head injury.