Oliver Sacks Face Blindness
In a fascinating article in the current issue of the new yorker dr.
Oliver sacks face blindness. Sacks talks about people including himself who have neurological difficulty recognizing faces and how they adapt and compensate. In october 1996 bill choisser began popularizing the term face blindness for this condition. Oliver sacks reveals his personal life long struggle with prosopagnosia or face blindness a condition he didn t realize he.
From his book the mi. Oliver sacks who died in 2015 was the author of many books. Oliver sacks on the mind s eye and neurological problems.
Like me sacks had long assumed that his difficulties remembering people were the result of. Face blindness may occur even with an intact fusiform face area if the lower occipital face areas have been damaged. The earliest known use of the term is in an 1899 medical paper.
Oliver sacks and his book the mind s eye oliver sacks cbs imagine looking in the. Björk musicophilia and face blindness august 3 2012 kate edgar news a sneak preview of hallucinations will run in the new yorker s issue dated august 27 th on stands august 20 2012 barring last minute scheduling changes by the magazine. I first learned about face blindness in 2010 when i read an article by oliver sacks in the new yorker.
In his new book the mind s eye neurologist oliver sacks tackles face blindness and other fascinating neurological afflictions.
