Comments | shagungu: Face recognition fail

shagungu

Face recognition fail

Oct 01, 2011 18:26

My congenital prosopagnosia (face blindness) must really be kicking in -- I figure that the people
in the Buckleup meme October banner must be Chris Pine and Karl Urban, but I can't make
my brain recognize them:

http://buckleup-meme.livejournal.com/8433.html

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janice_lester October 2 2011, 05:02:15 UTC

I had trouble too. I mean, I recognise Chris's outfit, wig, etc., I know what movie it's from... and there's something familiar about the other guy's eyes... but I just don't recognise them. Can't make them resolve into Chris and Karl. Weird.

shagungu October 2 2011, 05:06:26 UTC

Glad I'm not the only one! Do you often have trouble with faces? I can never tell when it is just my own idiosyncratic brain.

I wonder if this is partly why I am not very interested in fan art and/or pictures of actors, but really like fiction....

janice_lester October 2 2011, 05:11:37 UTC

I seem to have a bit more trouble than most people, yeah. I sometimes get confused in movies when there are two youngish male protagonists with the same colour hair--following the plot rests on being able to tell them apart, and no one else seems to be having any trouble, but I'm lost. :-|

shagungu October 2 2011, 05:23:58 UTC

Yes -- young adult Caucasian males with medium brown short hair are the worst! I get lost often, both in movies and real life ( ... )

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syredronning October 2 2011, 09:13:33 UTC

Pine has a face with no major characteristics IMO. (Quinto, on the other hand...)

Urban is a bit better but hardly ever as clean-shaven and round-faced as here :)

I did that face recognition test and ended with 83% which is average. My bigger trouble is recalling people's names *palmface* I'm quite good at remembering jobs or interests, but names...

(Edit for wacky English.)

shagungu October 2 2011, 14:37:41 UTC

That Urban picture -- I tried blocking out the hair and mouth, and could almost barely see the eyes as being his eyes. I agree that Pine's face is pretty average, and I could at least look at the face and say it was consistent with my memory of Pine's face. But I would never recognize him dressed like that out of context. Then again, I never recognize Urban from LOTR dressed as his character there (long blond curly hair? Argh ( ... )