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In article <-7adnZVQC7tyCLrZRVn-uA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, weyand@xxxxxxx
says...
I am particularly bad at putting names with faces. I also have trouble
recognizing people outside of the context in which I normally see them. This
can be really bad when you know somebody primarily from the net, though you
have met them several times, then when you meet them you can't remember who
they are, even though you emailed with them yesterday.

And other people don't seem to have similar problems in return, either that or
I am somehow more memorable in person than many other people. Dunno.

On the other hand, I don't use a PDA because if I call someone three times in
the same week, I will remember their phone number for a year. If I call them
regularly for a year or so, I will remember it for decades. Using a device to
look up phone numbers is a nuisance to me, because I remember them all without
any effort.

And I have another memory trick that served well in school. I can remember
pictures. I can remember a graph or diagram, and reproduce exactly it days
after having seen it. I can find a particular scene in a book, because I
remember how deep into the book it is and where in the open leafs it is (such
as on the right hand page about a third of the way down.) If my wife can't
find something, like her glasses, I can think of them and visualize where I
last saw them, fill in the surrounding scene ni my mental picture, and just go
and pick them up.

But this picture memory does not extend to faces, or, rather, does not extend
to associating faces with names. I'll remember the face, but have no clue who
it is, especially out of context.

What he said, modulo the bit about remembering phone numbers--but then I
don't tend to call people, so I don't need their numbers. I do remember
email addresses reasonably well, though.

Of course the embarrassing part for me about the face problem was that I
spent a number of years in the art history department, where people have
the (to me) odd notion that if you can remember all this visual stuff,
well, of *course* you can remember faces! I found that my visual memory
fell down, not only with actual people's faces, but also with portraits
sometimes. Oops. Which suggests to me that I use formal analysis as a
subconscious tool far more than some other art historians.

--
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
--George Plimpton

Joann Zimmerman jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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