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Woman Unable To Recognize Voices, Unless It's Sean ConneryComments:67
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday November 20, @04:31PM
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)
Miss Moneypenny? (Score:5, Funny)
Ish that you?
Slashdot confused? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2)
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.
Re:Slashdot confused? Why not? (Score:2, Funny)
Why not? Apparently, HIS word is HER bond... LOL!
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
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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Haha (Score:2)
The day is mine!
So.. (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds similar to face blindness (Score:2, 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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* Skimmed someones resume because they are female and put a picture online.
FAIL
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:
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?
"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]
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!
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.
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