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Do I know you? : a faceblind reporter's journey into the science of sight, memory, and imagination

Summary:

"Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she's a little quirky. But while she's made some strange mistakes over the years, it's not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (who she thinks is her husband) that she realizes something is amiss. With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Dingfelder starts contacting neuroscientists and lands herself in scores of studies. In the course of her nerdy midlife crisis, she discovers that she is emphatically not neurotypical. She has prosopagnosia (faceblindness), stereoblindness, aphantasia (an inability to create mental imagery), and a condition called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory. What Dingfelder learns about the brain captivates her. What she learns about the places where her brain falls short forces her to reinterpret major events from her past and grieve for losses she didn't even know she'd had"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Grocery store epiphany
Three moms and a Nazi
Missed connections
Hacking the system
Your brain's Rosetta Stone
Oblivious ineptitude
Fear, unmasked
Student driver
Sadie vision - Hollywood meets science
Quantifying quirkiness
Triangulating the truth
Gullible's travails
Comic incompetene is the brand
Appendix: Practical advice.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316545433
ISBN: 9780316545143
ISBN: 0316545147
Physical Description: 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown Spark, Hachette Book Group, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Grocery store epiphany Three moms and a Nazi Missed connections Hacking the system Your brain's Rosetta Stone Oblivious ineptitude Fear, unmasked Student driver Sadie vision - Hollywood meets science Quantifying quirkiness Triangulating the truth Gullible's travails Comic incompetene is the brand Appendix: Practical advice.