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Woman Unable To Recognize Voices, Unless It's Sean ConneryComments:68
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thu Nov 20, 2008 04:31 PM
from the I'll-take-the-penis-mightier-for-$200-trebek dept.
from the I'll-take-the-penis-mightier-for-$200-trebek dept.
A 60-year-old British woman is suffering from a neurological defect that is sure to put her in the next version of "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." She is unable to recognize any voice she hears — any voice, that is, but Sean Connery's. Unless she sees the face of the person speaking, she has no idea who is talking to her, even her daughter and co-worker's voices are unrecognizable. Dr. Brad Duchaine at University College London, thinks she might have the first documented case of vocal prosopagnosia, a condition which makes it extremely difficult for people to recognize faces. "His accent is distinctive," Duchaine explained. "And she is a British woman in her sixties ... let's say it's probable he got her attention."
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XKCD is always almost relevent. (Score:2, Funny)
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This is a documented but rare symptom of conjoined twin myselxia.
There are some documentary snippets on YouTube for those interested in further research.
Miss Moneypenny? (Score:5, Funny)
Ish that you?
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*Mish* Moneypenny?
Slashdot confused? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's because samzenpus suffers from a condition known as cowboynealosia, which causes him to think everything that doesn't come directly from Cowboy Neal himself should go into idle.
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It's probably in idle because that's the only way they could justify that horrible picture of Sean Connery in his panties.
Re:Slashdot confused? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Slashdot confused? Why not? (Score:2, Funny)
Why not? Apparently, HIS word is HER bond... LOL!
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First everyone complained that all the content in idle is stupid and useless, and when there actually is some interesting content, everyone complains that there shouldn't be interesting content in idle. So no matter what slashdot does with idle, it's always wrong?
Haha (Score:2)
The day is mine!
So.. (Score:2, Funny)
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Sounds similar to face blindness (Score:3, Informative)
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Although I don't see pieces of faces, I also often have trouble recognizing people. And don't get me started about remembering names! I guess every nerd has that problem in a big or small way. My roommate, who could program Linux kernel stuff, was a lot worse than me, but he was a lot more a real nerd than me, too.
Re:Sounds similar to face blindness (Score:5, Interesting)
There are two different types of prosopagnosia: apperceptive prosopagnosia, which is what the OP was describing, and associational prosopagnosia, which is more like not being able to use faces to query one's memory. I have the latter, and if I'm looking at a face I can parse it and work out age, gender, etc., which someone with apperceptive prosopagnosia typically can't do, but I can't make any associations with faces as such at all. I have to explicitly observe and notice features and make associations with those to recognize people. I usually end up going on hairstyles, with a somewhat limited success rate.
I'm pretty bad with voices too, although not as bad as I am with faces or as bad as the woman in the article. For what it's worth, I just had my first bug-fix (a race condition in arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S) accepted into the kernel source a few weeks ago, so I guess I fit your definition of a Real Nerd.
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I looked around on your homepage a bit, and yep, you're definitely a Real Nerd in my book.
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This alone is sufficient credentials for Real Nerd status.
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Don't be surprised when marriage proposals from fellow /.ers start show up in your email by the truckload.
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* Skimmed someones resume because they are female and put a picture online.
FAIL
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How did you know I got that from the resume? I think you fail worse.
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Clicked homepage to see what you were kicking up a big fuss over. Couple of lines of text, link to resume and a pic. Moved on.
Unless you are getting into some really serious stalking, I'm assuming you pored thru her resume to get all the extra info.
Re:Sounds similar to face blindness (Score:5, Interesting)
Meh. That's only actually happened to me once, and the person in question was (probably) joking. Anyway, to extend your list:
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Ony question I have is why you'd be inclined towards considering finding that xkcd cartoon offensive? Nothing wrong with Big Numbers (TM)
I do take offense at the gist of this thread though.
- Not all people who read /. have issues procuring geek- or other girls for sexual activity
- Not all people on /. would argue a somewhat pleasant face is enough to do marriage proposals
- Not all people on /. would even marry, because it's a religious institute which assumes some kind of mutual ownership. Who owns humans a
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I sometimes wonder if I have a form of prosopagnosia. I can't remember, based on face alone, who someone is unless I worked with that person closely for some time. There are people I've known at work for years (but haven't seen on a regular basis) and if I see them, I can't remember their name based on their face. When I met my wife online, we went through a long distance relationship phase. I was deathly afraid that she would arrive at the airport and I wouldn't recognize her face. Even my own cousins
Is that picture really necessary? (Score:3, Funny)
I think we have all seen enough of Sarah Palin.
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Of all his roles in all the films in all of time, why did it have to be Zed from Zardoz?
Oh and Ryan... (Score:1)
Beah carefulsh whatsh joo shhhhhoot at... mossshht thengs hehahr don't shhhReact well toh bulletsh...
"I'll take 'The Penis MIghtier', Alex..." (Score:4, Funny)
Nuff said.
OMG! (Score:2)
I did *not* need to see that photo...
[gouging eyes with stapler]
I'm posting as AC because.... (Score:1, Informative)
I'm ashamed to admit that I recognize that pic as being from Zardoz. :(
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Zardoz is an amazing movie, and we should look down upon those who have not seen it.
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Re:Picture (Score:4, Funny)
Please excuse me when I say, 'What the fuckety fuck fuck is that picture from?'
Your closet most likely.
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And in case you're wondering. The Penis is Evil. It shoots the seed upon the Earth that spreads the Plague of Men.
Good thing you posted as Anon. Coward.
In Soviet Russia, (Score:2)
Sean Connery only recognizes YOUR voice!
Oh, and something about Natalie Portman
Transcript of Diagnostic Session: (Score:5, Funny)
George W. Bush declares the Axis of Evil
Patient: Sean Connery!
Researcher: And who is speaking now?
Tiny Tim sings Tiptoe through the Tulips
Patient: Sean Connery!
Researcher: And who is speaking now?
Miss Piggy takes Kermit to task
Patient: Sean Connery!
Researcher: And who is speaking now?
Roaring Elephants and Chimpanzees howling
Patient: Sean Connery!
Researcher: And who is speaking now?
Sean Connery declares "There can be only one"
Patient: Sean Connery!
Researcher: Amazing! She can only recognize a voice if it is Sean Connery!
I know how to comfort her (Score:2)
Mary Hart (Score:2)
It made perfect sense to me. I'm sure we've all had seizures caused by Entertainment Tonight coming on TV.
Anyway they made hostile jokes about this woman on that show; to her credit Mary Hart wanted to call the woman to apologize.