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Sep. 3rd, 2006 12:32 amWhile working on some software/hardware installations on Puppy tonight, I was surfing through a few prosopagnosia relate links that I haven't looked at in a long time. I've been thinking on that subject and about my other presumed brain-wiring weirdness lately and I'm seriously thinking about trying to find a neurologist who can recognize and diagnose it; I may ask ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foreignlegion about the one he's been seeing when we get together on Monday.
But what leads me to post this is the test I just found. It's a facial recognition test intended to determine whether you have facial recognition problems. I'd be very much indebted to any of my readers who would be willing to take the test and comment with what their results were. Now I know that most, if not all, of my readers are fen, and that we're far from the most neurotypical group out there to begin with, but I'm pretty sure that I'm still in a minority when it comes to the face problems that I have.
When I took the test just a few minutes ago, I scored just barely over what one would expect from random chance, and I have to admit that when I was looking at all of those faces without any hair or clothes to go with them, I just felt so lost. I didn't even feel like I was looking at people; it was like some weird abstract picture show. I knew intellectually that I was looking at faces, but there was absolutely no emotional response to tell me that I was looking at people instead of some random pictures. Anyway, here are my results:
"Overall, you got 52% correct
The average person with normal face recognition scores about 85% on this test. If you scored less than 75% on this test, this may indicate face recognition difficulties."
Here's a link to the test: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/facetests/oldnew/oldnew_intro.php
If you'd give it a shot yourself and let me know how it goes just so I can get an idea of where I fit into the spectrum among of my readership, that would be wonderful!
And by the way, if anything I write on this sparks your interest, this link is an invaluable resource: http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/ It's one of the first things I found when I originally started looking for information about face recognition problems, and is one of the most interesting and understandable for those who don't have first hand experience with the problem.
foreignlegion about the one he's been seeing when we get together on Monday.But what leads me to post this is the test I just found. It's a facial recognition test intended to determine whether you have facial recognition problems. I'd be very much indebted to any of my readers who would be willing to take the test and comment with what their results were. Now I know that most, if not all, of my readers are fen, and that we're far from the most neurotypical group out there to begin with, but I'm pretty sure that I'm still in a minority when it comes to the face problems that I have.
When I took the test just a few minutes ago, I scored just barely over what one would expect from random chance, and I have to admit that when I was looking at all of those faces without any hair or clothes to go with them, I just felt so lost. I didn't even feel like I was looking at people; it was like some weird abstract picture show. I knew intellectually that I was looking at faces, but there was absolutely no emotional response to tell me that I was looking at people instead of some random pictures. Anyway, here are my results:
"Overall, you got 52% correct
The average person with normal face recognition scores about 85% on this test. If you scored less than 75% on this test, this may indicate face recognition difficulties."
Here's a link to the test: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/facetests/oldnew/oldnew_intro.php
If you'd give it a shot yourself and let me know how it goes just so I can get an idea of where I fit into the spectrum among of my readership, that would be wonderful!
And by the way, if anything I write on this sparks your interest, this link is an invaluable resource: http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/ It's one of the first things I found when I originally started looking for information about face recognition problems, and is one of the most interesting and understandable for those who don't have first hand experience with the problem.
