Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, 1985 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
William Gibson, “Pattern Recognition”, 2003 was also the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: William Gibson, “Pattern Recognition”, 2003, PART TWO (II).
INTRODUCTION.
PROSOPAGNOSIA (face blindness) is a disorder of “pattern recognition”. William Gibson’s character suffers with PROSOPAGNOSIA (face blindness) and she is unable to recognize her own face. BELOW is the outline of what PROSOPAGNOSIA suffers would report. BENEATH the outline is the actual face.
Here I presented: William Gibson, “Pattern Recognition”, 2003, PART TWO (II).
COMMENTS.
PROSOPAGNOSIA (face blindness) is due to brain Fusiform Gyrus’ dysfunction . A comorbidity seen with “face blindness” is frequently DYSLEXIA (readless). The suffers are unable recognize written language in DYSLEXIA.
