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

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

Dingfelder, Sadie, (author.).

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.

Record details

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

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.

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Subject: Dingfelder, Sadie.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Neurodivergent people > Biography.
Prosopagnosia > Anecdotes.
Memory disorders > Anecdotes.
Prosopagnosia > Patients > Biography.
Science writers > United States > Biography.
Neurodiversity.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.

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  • 10 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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