Faces vs places
Jan. 24th, 2019 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothI find it really interesting that I have a very hard time remembering people's names /faces /usernames, but have no problem with places.
Sample one: driving along on a main road somewhere in Yorkshire, 'Ah ha, there's an ice cream parlour near here, we went six years ago!' Ten miles of country roads later, there it is, on the bend that I remember.
Sample two: visiting a foreign city for the first time in about fifteen years, I can recognise the remainder shop where I bought some CDs, DVDs and watches. Oh, and one of the local equivalent of TheWorks chain where I had bought a puzzle.
Sample one: driving along on a main road somewhere in Yorkshire, 'Ah ha, there's an ice cream parlour near here, we went six years ago!' Ten miles of country roads later, there it is, on the bend that I remember.
Sample two: visiting a foreign city for the first time in about fifteen years, I can recognise the remainder shop where I bought some CDs, DVDs and watches. Oh, and one of the local equivalent of TheWorks chain where I had bought a puzzle.
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Date: 2019-01-24 07:57 pm (UTC)Brains are REALLY interesting in that way!
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Date: 2019-01-25 02:27 pm (UTC)I still unnerve Conflux sometimes by navigating through parts of London or Wiltshire or similar that I haven't seen in 20 years.
And then there's places that look odd until I crouch down and turns out I was there as a child...
A lot of those faceblindness tests are flawed because they use the same photo for each time a person is presented. I can identify photo x every time I see it, but give me another photo of person slightly rotated and then ask whether I've been shown that person... Screwed.
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Date: 2019-01-25 04:40 pm (UTC)