Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Recognition blues

You'll need a New Yorker subscription for access to the digital edition, but there is a fascinating piece this week by Oliver Sacks on his own lifelong inability to recognize faces and places.

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  1. Radiolab recently had a podcast of a talk with Sacks and Chuck Close about face blindness from last year's World Science Festival. It was absolutely fascinating.

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