Mugwump's Fish World

http://www.alnmag.com/news/2015/08/dogs-process-faces-specialized-brain-area?et_cid=4716887&et_rid=651558105&type=cta (http://www.alnmag.com/news/2015/08/dogs-process-faces-specialized-brain-area?et_cid=4716887&et_rid=651558105&type=cta)

Dogs evolved from wolves 10-30 thousand years ago. It would be nice if they were able to compare their results with wolves.
However, its probably not easy to train a wolf to look at a screen for 30 seconds while in a MRI.

Thanks.  I'm in to dogs and I'm into Neuropsychology.  I've read everything by Oliver Sacks.  He suffers from "face blindness", you know.  I have the same thing but nowhere near as bad as he has it.  Until I read about it in one of his books I thought it was a personality flaw.  I found out differently.  Face recognition is quite variable in humans.  I knew one lady, a retired school teacher, who would meet one of her middle school students as an adult and be able to call her by name.  Remarkable.

Yeah, that stuff is fascinating.

Too bad Oliver Sacks has cancer and is expecting to die soon.


You would probably like the book: The Mind of a Mnemonist, by the Russian Pyshologist Luria.

It describes a guy who had both extreme synaesthesia (where senses get mixed like getting a flavor when you see a color), would get lots of associated facts come to mind based on the synaesthetic sensations, and had great difficulty forgetting anything.
This made his life difficult.

I didn't know that Sacks was sick with cancer.  When he dies it will be a huge loss to humanity.  I'll look up the book you suggested on Amazon.  thank you.