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Why Our Brains Recognize Faces So Easily... or Fail at It
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2018
- We are constantly recognizing faces countless times a day, but how do our brains distinguish those faces so easily?
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0:09 Jokes on you, Beyonce IS my Mom and my best friend
Beat me to it
I now need to meet your mom and best friend.
Get off of youtube, Blue Ivy, you're too good for this place
You typed that from a womb?
I have a really hard time with faces; to the point where I awkwardly stare at people like, "is that who I think it is, or do they just look similar?" Which is problematic either way; either they are who I think and they wonder why I didn't say hi, or they aren't and think I'm a creep just staring at them.
Christopher Murray Same here
I rely heavily on a persons hair, voice and cloathing to recognize them
This is a big problem for me. I have to stare 2-3 seconds or more in order to recognize. Last week for instance i was in a store and heard a voice i recognized and there's only one who uses that nickname for me. Two girls stood in front of me and i had to look at them back and forth in order to determine who the voice came from. "Dont you recognize me??". So damn awkward. Instead i rely on body language and movement. While i have a hard time remembering name AND faces, i do create "fingerprints" of people's general mood and emotional state.
Well, it feels good there's an explanation. I do have some psychiatric issues and this particular started maybe ten years ago. It wasn't something i thought of before.
One positive thing from this is that now i make eye contact with all strangers and crack a smile. That is something everyone should try! The response is fantastic
Taker 314
I also find context to be helpful, like I might not recognize someone on a bus if I'm not expecting to see them there while having no problem in their home.
I doubt my facial recognition due to past experiences when I was overconfident in it. A good example is this past Saturday I saw the side and back of someone's head as I entered a local store and was pretty sure it was them but was not certain until I saw their name tag- legitimately got a good view of their face before then and still doubted it until then... glad they hadn't reacted to seeing me or hadn't saw me.
Christopher Murray what about voices do You have the same problem?
Coincidentally I just re-watched a documentary "NatGeo "My Brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar". She's a chess Grand Master and according to brain scans she has 'hijacked' the Fusiform Face Area to recognize chess patterns. This was the effect of training from a early age.
This is very similar to how professional Chicken Sexers (people who have to distinguish the sex of a chicken) can intuitively and rapidly distinguish a male from a female without knowing what characteristics makes a chicken a male or a female. It makes sense that they too have "hijacked" their FFA to recognize the distinguishing patterns subconsciously.
This is very interesting. I have a problem with recognizing faces but im damn good at seeing patterns and deviations - both in statistics and psycho social behavior. Many many thinks for your comment!
I'm really good at remembering faces, yet terrible at remembering names. They're like "Hi, I'm Hank, nice to meet you.". and I'm like " Hi Hank, I'm Irvine, Nice to meet you too.".
Brain *Face0039880281.jpg Saved to memory.*
Then I see them the next day and they're like " Hey Irvine!" and I'm like " Heeeeey... Face0039880281.jpg..."
Whew, I am not the only one.
I find I can go one step further, someone can tell me the name of heir significant other, and I have zero problems remembering it but, after I meet them, I can't remember their name.
I think that's why people oftentimes don't ask anymore "whatstheirname", but "whatstheirface"
This is one of the best moments ive ever seen
Fun fact! Some political scientists took subjects photographs and meshed them with politicians' pictures to the point that the subjects reported not being able to recognize who they were looking at. The researchers then pitted these hypothetical candidates against other, not-meshed faces and found that the familiar faces wiped the floor with the unfamiliar ones. So facial familiarity can play a pretty big role in how we navigate the world.
I've had prosopagnosia from birth, but didn't realize it until I learned about it at around age 16. I pick up on enough other features (hair, voice, body type, mannerisms) that I can usually recognize people day-to-day, especially if it's in a context where I would expect to see them (e.g. my coworkers in the office). Oddly, I still get pareidolia, and I still see the Thatcher effect - my brain knows things are faces, it just doesn't know which ones.
I'm the exact same! I have such a hard time recognizing people when they change major parts of their appearance like hair or if I see them in a place I didn't expect to see them. Sadly, this even happens with my family members to an extent.
@@illiteratemochi4150 I don't have issues recognizing people when I'm at school or something when I see the same person in the same place every day, but if I were to see my best friend at the grocery store, I wouldn't recognize him. Which is weird, but that just how it is? I have a hard time placing people when I don't expect to see them.
I have face blindess to the degree that I have trouble recognizing my family if we are in a public place with a lot of people (a Walmart, for instance). I can stare right at their face and have no idea who they are if they are in a crowd. Luckily, they all have defining features (my dad kinda waddles when he walks, my mom is a pretty unmistakable round dollop of sunshine, my brother has really long hair, etc.) so I can recognize them within a few seconds without even seeing their faces. I can't recall faces either (or race, for some reason). In my mind, there is just a blur where a person's face should be (because of this, the people in my dreams don't have faces). I am not sure where my face blindess comes from. My dad is great with faces, my mom isn't, but she had brain damage before, so that is probably why. I think it is because I am autistic. Autism affects basically everything about an individual; why would the ability to recognize faces be any different?
Next : *Why are we bad at remembering names?*
like a computer, the brain ran out of memory
In other words, human brains have hardware acceleration for face recognition.
3:05 I predict that soon there will be a new "hank" user in this comment section with this picture as his avatar. I'm just not sure yet what his name will be...
Pineapple Upside-Down Hank?
Paul Paulson Hank Thatcher?
*Prank Hank maybe?*
Hi
Hi! :D
You should mention super recognisers. People with an exceptional ability to recognise faces
I can remember faces from people I met years ago if only momentarily. It's a weird super power. I can recognize extras in movies from other movies.
I can know someone fairly well and be able to identify them among other people in a certain setting, but then totally not know who they are in a different setting. I'll know their face is familiar, but be totally unable to place who they are and why I know them. For example, I had a dog with chronic health issues so I was at the vet with him frequently. I knew everyone in that office by name. But one day I ran into the vet and her family at a store. Her husband was the office manager at the clinic, so I knew him too. I knew that I knew them, but I couldn't remember their names or where I knew them from. I faked it well (I think). It finally hit me a few hours later. This has happened many times. I've perfected sincerely saying, "Hi! How are you! Nice to see you!" All while mentally scrambling for clues as to that person's context in my life. 😕
I feel this so much. It used to happen on a daily dasis to me, but now during covid I don't see many people lol. I fake knowing people so much because my brain needs time to recognise them out of context. I'm always affraid they'll find out...
@@monamaennchen Glad to know I'm not alone! 🤷♀️ My husband is the opposite. He can see someone he hasn't seen in 20-30 years and know exactly who they are and remember all sorts of stuff about them. Even if they've changed significantly. We've been together 25 years. He still doesn't get that not everyone can do that.
Love this new guy presenting.
'New'
I have a pretty hard time with faces but I’m doing pretty well recognizing people in my thesis class (in art school) this semester. I still only remember like two names but since we’re in depth talking about everyone’s art (most pieces of which are following a narrative are) twice a week I have distinct memories to associate with them, which helps a lot, though the quiet ones are still hard to remember cause I look at their art more than their faces haha.
On a related note a teacher of mine from the previous semester said hi and I didn’t recognize them at first bc they got a haircut, but some seconds after they said my name I recognized that I knew that person, but not from where. It took some thinking on it after they left before I placed that I’d taken their class.
I'm pretty bad at it! Mixed up my boss and my coworker. Then I didn't recognize a client who had left items at the counter and came back like 10 minutes later with more items. SOOO BAD. Hahaha.
Chuck Close, a painter world-famous for his gigantic, photo-realist portraits of faces, is face blind. There’s a documentary about it.
I tend to see similaritys between faces and think people are looking very mutch as other people, but my surronding people don't share my thoughts very often. 😓
I am face blind! So excited to hear Hank talk about it
I've noticed that most people have two faces, for me.
One that's instantly recognizable, and a completely different face which can only be seen if you really, really look at them, observing them even more than if you're going to draw their portrait. It helps if you really know the person, in order to see this 'other, truer' face. Maybe that's just me, though.
Yay! A new video and a live stream and the main channel! I love SciShow and SciShow Psych! Thanks for this video!
Did the pumpkin ever go?I was getting drowsy there.
I dont have a time with face recognition... but putting the name to faces is exceptionally difficult...even folks ive known for years ill blank on their names.
I'm usually decent enough with faces, except when it comes to TV shows. I need to see a character and hear their name at least for a few consecutive minutes to remember them; otherwise, the next time they show up on screen, I'm just like, "Uh... is that Bobby or Joe? I think it's Joe -- oh, they just called him Hank. Who the eff is Hank?"
God, I'm so happy to see an episode about this--I read about face blindness on Wikipedia, so I suspected I had it, but seeing it on a SciShow episode is a world apart from reading it on Wikipedia, LOOOOOOOL
Yeah!! Thanks for talking about prosopagnosia. I have it, but I need to point out that it doesn't write off pareidolia completely in most cases because easily not recognizing basic features - eyes, mouth, nose - would be troublesome in an evolutive sense. Prosopagnosia is a spectrum and as the video mentions, most people just have a little more trouble recognizing familiar faces, but to actually be completely unable to recognize a face is very rare (see Oliver Sack's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" for an extreme example of it). In those cases, people sometimes can't recognize themselves in the mirror! That is, however, EXTREMELY rare. I have pareidolia and to be honest with you, it's a lot easier for me to see lil faces in the world around me than actually recognizing human faces.
An example of a person with prosopagnosia can give you, on the other hand, is having trouble recognizing acquintainces, or actors in movies. For example, I only began identifying Ryan Gosling in movies when I noticed his eyes are unaligned and close together, plus the crooked smile. Before I made that connection, he was pretty much like any other white male actor I saw. Also, if I'm distracted and I'm suddenly faced with a mirror or a picture of myself, I might take half a second more to recognize my own face - but I still know it's someone who looks a lot like me.
I'd like to add that prosopagnosia is also common in people in the autism spectrum, which helps explaining (but only HELPS, there's more involved in it) why they don't identify expressions well. :D
Yes, it is the same with flocks of birds, my father used to breed racing pigeons and from a very young age I could tell each individual in a flock of around 100 apart.
Great topic and coverage of it!
Regarding whether the Fusiform Gyrus is specifically used to recognize faces, as opposed to complex shapes ... more in general: My wife being from China, I’ve learned quite a few Chinese characters in my day, and I get the distinct feeling that recognizing them is very similar with recognizing faces. So, I have to wonder to what degree the fusiform gyrus might be involved in that too!
It would be an easy experiment to conduct with an FMRI. It would be important to test both native and second-language speakers (or “readers”).
I always had a horrible time with faces, but a bad wreck back in 2012 has definitely worsened things. I had a stroke (either from the wreck or causing the wreck) and a series of TIAs and now I have an absolutely horrible time with faces. If I knew you before then it seems easier but if I met you after I will have a horrible time. I have many younger cousins that are around the same ages and a large amount of the time I just avoid calling them by their name. After awhile I'll figure out who's who, but then the next time there's a family gathering the game starts all over again! I am far too ashamed to tell any of them this of course, but so far I think I've gotten by without any of them realizing I have no idea which child they are.
I actually noticed a few years ago that after I got into kpop/kdrama and East Asian media overall and saw Asian faces a lot more, that the trouble I had at the beginning of keeping ppl apart wasn't because I didn't know the actual person but because I just didn't consume a lot of Asian media or had many Asians in my environment, so I really wasn't great at noticing the differences in faces. But now these "omg look these Asians all look the same" images just look like someone is showing a picture of Idk the cast of scrubs and going "look they're identical"
The exposure really affects a lot, so I really hope that there can be more studies on the FFA to see to what extent it can be adapted to other complex objects besides faces
It takes me a while to recognize people after first meeting them, and can be several months before I can call their face to mind if I don't see them on a near-daily basis (sometimes my brain will try to bring up another person's face in place of theirs if I don't know them well). One time I greeted a new coworker as a customer for three days in a row, even after working with her for several hours on one of those days... and there were only five of us who worked there. I don't think I have aphantasia, though, as I can visualize other things and people I know well.
Please do an episode on psychopaths. Love you!
OnlineDater69 i think they have idk
YES ABOUT THE HAIRCUT AND THE FEATURES AND YES!
But also I recognise someone's face itself if I see them every day. I can bring my mums face up in my mind but I can't bring my best friend's face up. And I can't even vaguely remember the face of a friend I used to see every day but haven't for years. UGH if I forgot someone's name it's awful because I'm like 'I'm bad with faces' and they're like 'oh it's (name)" but I can't remember that either. 😂
Tbh this chanell is so underrated awesome vedio as always❤❤❤
People joke about how Clark Kent with glasses and Superman without glasses can be "different" people. Some disguise! But when you have prosopagnosia, that's exactly what happens. And it's very hard to tell certain "types" of people apart because they look so similar, like Hollywood movie men with brown hair, hobbits, or ladies with long blonde hair. I got through half the second LotR movie before I realized there were two different pairs of hobbits. Made so much more sense after I realized that. Had similar problems watching "Love, Actually" (thought the writer and Prime Minister were the same people until they were in the same place at the same time) and many other movies. Next to each other they are obviously different, but when viewed separately, it's hard to tell them apart.
I can recognize familiar faces (seen once or twice before) from a crowd within a split second. However those people usually won't recognize me so I am always trying to avoid them the best I can and don't have to awkwardly say 'hi' to receive a confused look.
appdata prozent sorry lol I’m one of those people to not remember. Sometimes people come up to me, knowing my name and talking to me and laughing and I’m here like, “Yeah, haha, who are you again??”
Funny thing happened just now. I walking in on my drill sergeant, who was watching _this_ video, and asked what it was about. I don't think he liked being interrupted because he said, "about face!"
Holy crap there's a word for it?! I'm just bad at faces! Well, sortof. I can remember dogs by their faces but not people, really.
2:55 I dunno. You look more derpy in that picture.
I actually have prosopagnosia! So I literally can't recognize people unless I'm familiar with their hairstyle, voice, wardrobe, etc. It's a huge pain and I've accidentally offended so many people XD
Recognizing faces is like recognizing elbows. How the hell do you do it?
Each time a friend changes their hair cut, I get extremely irritated, mad and sad cause it changes my FULL perspective of them, I majorly recognize people by their hair. Two of my friends (one being an ex-friend) DRASTICALLY changed their hair cut, my ex-friend had curled them when for the whole previous year they had been straight, and got extremely mad at me when I didn’t give her a compliment when she asked me what I thought about it and actually said “Well… It’s alright, but I think you hair looks really nice when it’s natural and straight!” And the second time was when a friend went from hair long to the lower part of her back and cut it to her shoulders. She called me (face time) and I was so angry inside when I saw it, and went “Oh, you changed your haircut?” With zero emotions and she proudly said “Yes! Do you like it?” I skipped the subject and talked about something else, it’s been HALF A YEAR and I still can’t get used to it
Reason is: guilt feeling, shame and fear. You prefer remain hidden by not looking at faces. If you dont look straight at faces you cannot record. You didn´t record, you can´t remember.
You can release these 3 emotions with mental therapy and revert the situation.
I wish I was as good at names as I am with faces
I recognized someone at the grocery store I barely knew yesterday after 16 years . Im so impressed with my brain right now. No synchronicities or 11:11 here lol
I've suffered from prosopagnosia most of my life... When I was a kid I was in my father's work van that only had 2 bucket seats and funny enough I sat on an actual bucket in the middle... Someone in front of us slammed on their brakes and I flew into the dash hitting my face.... It wasn't until recently that I received an actual diagnosis of prosopagnosia which confirmed what I believed... The doctor explained how when I hit the dash my brain pulled forward most likely and damaged the nerves on the bottom of the brain that deal with facial recognition. He said it's like moving a bowl of jello and how it squishes when you scoop it out of a container... Very strange...
As to what it's been like for me personally- it goes from scary to embarrassing. I've always worked retail and the shop I worked at for a few years- the other workers would see a regular coming and know exactly what kind of cigarettes or whatever else he wanted and had it on the counter waiting... I'd often be asked why I wasn't as good as them (them teasing) and I never really told them it's because I don't recognize faces. Sadly the reality for me is that when people ask- they don't really care to learn what it is. I don't give a long speech but I try to explain with a condensed version and you lose people these days after one sentence. (I call it the twitter syndrome, people do NOT pay attention longer than a sentence or two- and thus twitter was born!)
But it's also been scary because the people that don't like me- I don't remember what they look like so i've gotten punched a couple times in the face because they were able to walk right up to me without me realizing this is someone who has issues with me for some childish reason.
I recognize my family and friends but that's it... Any new faces that I haven't had around for many many years or all of my life- I have trouble retaining what they look like. I've been with my boyfriend for 10 years and I still can't remember what his parents look like. I guarantee it if someone dressed like they do and drove up in their car- i'd think it was them. I do remember voices if i've heard them enough or they are very distinct so that helps SOME. But in an office setting- a person could easily go into an office dressed like a doctor and looking similar to my doctor and i'd think that was him. I remember he has a mustache and glasses but that's it really. So a lot of people I see infrequently- someone could easily impersonate and i'd never know. It's scary...
I have facial blindness, so when you said you’d suck at life if you couldn’t see faces, I laughed
And cried a little :P
Interesting things: I do still see fake faces in toast and such
I was also neglected as a young kid, so maybe that’s part of it! Maybe science will tell me soon
I can see faces in inanimate objects like the ones shown in the video, yet I have walked past my own mother before...
I mostly recognise people by hairstyle, voice and gait. I have even recognised somebody I couldn't even see just by their footsteps. That was interesting. (I just "knew" who it was after hearing the steps. I turned out to be right, but I never would have thought that was possible without actively memorising somebody's footsteps)
There are some faces I can recognise better than others - Obama's face, for example, seems to distinct to me, that I can recognise it immediately. Unfortunately that is not always the case in my everyday life and while I do generally look at people and think I know who it is, I am never confident and generally just act like I haven't seen them until they initiate a conversation.
Come to think of it, I remember one scene where I was at a playground with my great aunt when I was a child. There was a guy with a beard that was vaguely similar to my dad's, so I immediately thought it was him. I was very confused when he spoke...
Guess that means I have always been pretty bad at recognising people, even if I only really noticed it at uni - too many people to interact with!
I'm really bad at faces, some faces are easier to remember, like if someone wears glasses, or has curly hair, or some feature that makes it recognizable. I once didn't recognized my next-door neighbor when I saw him in the grocery store, my husband got mad because I didn't say hello to the neighbor.
I'm great with faces, but trying to remember the name to go with said face..... Oh boy!
Well, this actually helps explain a few things. Until I was 5, I didn't even realize that people's faces were something that can be used to tell them apart, and after about 2 years of practice (yes it really did take that long), I finally got to a point where I could actually tell people apart relatively easily.
Though, I still can't seem to easily remember what an individual's face looks like, even people I see almost every day.
I know someone who’s face blind, I was shook when I found out! I never knew! She was always very good at recognising people regardless. I forgot what caused it though... Pretty sure it had to do with brain injury. And come to think of it... I think my sis in law has it too... She always complained about how she can’t tell people in Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings apart, and really doesn’t know the difference between Gandalf and Dumbledore...
Great vid!
This made me think of a thing that's popped up a few times during my lifetime so far. It's about how people would have a harder time telling people apart that's of another skin color, and I'm wondering if it's the same thing, where our brains aren't attuned to the different color faces we might see if you're from a place without many, if any people of a different color.
I often recognize people by the colour of their shirt or hat. If they change clothes, I have no idea who they are anymore. So, I guess Superman's hat and glasses disguise is effective after all.
I’m great with faces but I suck at learning names like if I don’t know that persons name within the first 2 times meeting them or even seeing them in the hallways between classes or a study hall once a week I’ll always look at them and recognize them and maybe know stuff about them just by accidentally hearing conversations and know oh it’s that guy he is in basketball and is an AP math student but I don’t know his name. It’s really awkward because in the non required classes freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are mixed together so I may talk to them several times and see them but not know their names and if I’m hearing someone spilling some tea and I don’t know the name it’ll typically go like “oh is it that one dude with the blue eyes and thick but blonde eyebrows kinda short and wears that same shirt 3 times a week? Ohhh I know him he is in orchestra and tech theater with me” and it is so awkward sometimes but I’m a visual learner so oh well
I will not forget the face of Sticky. RIP
I have face blindness and I didn't realize that until I was in college, but it made a whole lot of sense once I found out.
I'm very good at recognising faces but I don't look at people's faces much IRL. I basically never look people in the eyes. Sometimes I've misidentified people despite my ability to recognise faces. Not sure how. Maybe I was nervous, in sensory overload, or something else? Anyway, I tend to see imperfections where others see nothing unless it's pointed out if even then. Of course I see myself as ugly. It's probably BDD (and gender dysphoria). There was a paper about a study of BDD that said that autistic people probably have higher rates of BDD and that BDD is similar to how autistic brains focus on the small details instead of the bigger picture but in BDD it's specifically in the FFA. But autistic people also have higher rates of prosopagnosia. Do any of you know of any more recent studies into these things?
what if my mum is my friend AND also Beyoncé?
I wander if there's a link between the FFA and other objects. I work in a cafe and while other people I work with have no problems recognizing people and what coffees they have I struggle ... a lot. Even if I recognize someone's face, what kind of coffee they have is more difficult for me to remember even if I see them every day.
I have mild face blindness. Some faces, like immediate family and my bff, I have down. But people I don't see frequently are a mixed bag. I met my sister's friend once, didn't see her for a month in which she cut her hair. I didn't recognize her at all
I would love to see a study done on animal behaviourists like me. I am very good with human faces but I am also very good with identification of individuals of other species. Mostly dogs and felines, as I have worked with them the most, but also other mammals. We've actually tested it where, on facial features alone, I was able to identify a number of dogs and cats who were in my care after only a day
I saw a program where they did an experiment with blind people to see if the visual cortex "took over" other kinds of duties. They found they did use it for reading braille. Seems to me that a way to test for "bird recognition" might be to find a person or group who has an obsessive tendency for something OTHER than faces and do an FMRI scan on them to see if the face area lights up.
So Mother nature has dedicated a portion of the human brain to give us effortless, super-advanced Face ID. (Even though it strictly has to be in the upright orientation.)
I have prosopagnosia! Not from a brain injury though, I only found out I have it from learning about the fusiform face area at university
I've got a distinctive facial feature - a rather (very) large mustache; in the past it's extended well beyond my ears. I learned to estimate the age of babies because between six months and about 18 months they would inevitably reach out and grab my 'stach if I got close enough to them. You could see their developing brains locking on to the fact that yes, that was a face but there's something *really* different about it. If they're too young to have developed social inhibitions (about grabbing a stranger) their hand would shoot out to get a hold of that different thing to figure out just what was going on. When meeting strangers with young kids I've learned to expect this behavior and not pull back if someone grabbed a tiny fistfull of my facial hair :-)
(This isn't that different from toddlers reaching for glasses; they just want to explore what makes this face different)
I have prosopagnosia and it took me over a year to figure out that the vlog brothers were two different people. I kept wondering if the other people they were talking to was ever going to reply
Everyone in the superman universe has congenital prosopagnosia. Just the glasses and hat make him a different person.
I once had a really weird sickness in college where for a day I got prosopagnosia and couldn't recognize anyone around me except by context like I could tell my professor was my professor because she was speaking in front of the class, but couldn't actually recognize anyone. It was really trippy...
Basically, pattern matching to the extreme.
The first signs where when i was three or so my mum got a haircut and all hell broke loose. That and my nan has two names for her, so you can imagine my confusion. I only understood what was going on later on. when i had to Manually memorize my parents face, which still is hard. The weird thing is, and here i want to know if this is normal, it does a weird thing where the face features dont get read well, and i end up seeing, for split second at the time, people with two mouth one over the other, or eyes on the same side of the head. I call it Partial prosopagnosia, because it flickers on and off, but also Picasso Prosopagnosia, because in my brain it feels like the illusion of the bunny and the duck, but for faces.
I am autistic and have mild prosopagnosia. I've developed my general complex pattern recognition to the point that I'll perceive dogs as looking familiar, because the rest of my brain had to pick up the slack.
I have face blindness and it’s a huge pain. There is no upside. I didn’t know until I was an adult. At school I was labelled “stuck up” and even now it’s hard to make friends. Life becomes a constant string of faux pas. It would be funny if it wasn’t so aggravating.
I just use sound, I can remember voice tones but I can never remember a face but that's probably just because I never actually look at people.
I keep wondering if I have face blindness cause I do have difficulties with faces, like I have to see a person regularly for close to a year before I'm able to tell them apart from someone else. And if a friend or family changes their hair drastically it can make it hard to recognize them for a second or to even process what I'm seeing. Plus my brain does this weird thing, it might be a coping mechanism, where it'll group faces into 3 categories: Never seen before/ seen in passing once or twice, am familiar with the face but not enough to recognize it without help, or this is a person I know well. This gets really annoying at my Psychiatrist's office since it's shared with maybe a dozen other docs who just stick their heads in expecting to either see and be recognized by their patients. So I'll just stare awkwardly at the doctor to see any signs of whether I'm the one they want or not, even if it's like me 4th time going and each session can range from 30-60 minutes long
Thanks for the nightmare fuel! 👍
"luckily, because otherwise we'd be terrible at all interactions--"
ah. yeah i barely recognize faces, i have to put a lot of effort into recognizing peoples body language and their voices. which sucks for me if people have similar sounding voices.
I have aphantasia and this is so difficult! If I see a person out of the normal context (my neighbor in her yard) I have a hard time figuring out who they are. This isn't true for people I'm extremely close with though. I have no problem recognizing family and friends.
2:57 This is what nightmares are made of.
Why did I read feces. Just why..
We recognize feces pretty well, too
😆 thx for the laugh mate. Need glasses? Dyslexia perhaps? Hope not. Good luck with that.
@@elsastark2351 I already got glasses, but they can't compensate it back to 100%. I'll never be able to see sharp.
(Ironic since I'm a C# programmer xD )
I have prosopagnosia. Im 31 and i just found out a few months ago. Thank you for helping raise awareness about my condition!
I have partial facial blindness. My entire life is a game of trying to figure out if I know someone or not. It took me 5 months to realize that my partner in a science class was the same guy my roommate was dating. I am unable to distinguish people outside of the context I meet them in.
I have great difficulty with faces, had it from birth. One problem for me is trying to watch movies. If the characters are too similar, I get seriously confused...
I never knew there was a name for it. I just thought I was bad at faces!
Hmm, the part about recognising people by memorising specific features sounds very familiar, but I am able to see faces in random objects sometimes (e.g. the two examples shown worked fine).
Also I'm somehow better at recognising and imagining faces when I have seen them in pictures instead of real life or videos.
could I get that pic of Hank with upside-down eyes/mouth on a t-shirt
The only faces I had trouble recognising were bts members. After about a month I could distinguish them in my own ways, like their jaws and noses for markers lol
Bluon I just wrote this same comment! wow good to know that I‘m not the only one out there
Bluon to be fair Koreans have so much plastic surgery and it’s so common so they’re kinda like a copy of a copy of one another
1:50 Before they showed the charging port I totally thought it was the trinidad & tobago flag
Anju in the hotel room sidequest, anyone?
I've always been pretty bad at faces, but I got somewhat better when I started wearing glasses more frequently. Go figure.
Hi, thanks for all the work. What about other recognition ? I went to a farm, and watching the cows getting nervous, the farmer called a cow by its name to calm it... Just glanced at a group of about 30 cows, and called the name of the more nervous one, which wasn't even showing its face ! Is it possible that the brain perceives some animal shape with the same area when the animal is familiar and has a name, a bit like an "extended" family ?
Neat
Is there any easy way to see a quantification of how variable faces actually are? E.g. how much the ratio between ear to ear distance and eye to eye distance varies within populations?
I've seen a table of how much individual lengths on faces vary, but I guess its the ratios that we use to recognise faces, since we can generally recognise a face well in a photo without the need to compare it to something of known length.
Just got tested for it, 100% fail.
I don't even recognize my own kids.
I live in a world of strangers.
Don't get that haircut Bonnie.
How do other social animals recognize each other? Do they have an analogous part of the brain to help them?
Some can go by smell, like dogs. I think I've heard that Zebra's all have unique stripe patterns and they can tell each other apart by that.
At the very least, crows must have a similar mechanism. It gives way to the "crow problem" where crows are as good at recognizing humans as they are other crows but humans can't recognize crows in the same way.
Prosopagnosia Projection. Superman's unknown power. That's why no one recognizes that he and Clark Kent are the same person.
That hank face though
Here before muscle Hank shows up
Working in a place where the majority of peers are wearing hijab and glasses is the expert mode, like when you ask or being asked which one is A, most of the answer is "you know, the one wearing hijab and glasses" lol the struggle.