Sunday, January 31, 2016

"Picture This? Some Just Can’t"

"The scientists showed names to MX and asked him to picture their faces. In normal brains, some of those face-recognition regions again become active. In MX’s brain, none of them did.
Paradoxically, though, MX could answer questions that would seem to require a working mind’s eye. He could tell the scientists the color of Tony Blair’s eyes, for example, and name the letters of the alphabet that have low-hanging tails, like g and j. These tests suggested his brain used some alternate strategy to solve visual problems.


All in all, Dr. Zeman and his colleagues were struck by how similar the results of the survey were. “These people seemed to be describing something consistent,” Dr. Zeman said. Rather than being a unique case, MX may belong to an unrecognized group of people."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html?referrer&_r=5


I found this because a friend posted it as validation that she was telling the truth when she said she couldn't form mental images. #neurodiversity

I really want to hear the rest of the story as they do more research.
(Credit to LS)

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