What is it like to be face blind? With Joe DeGutis, PhD, and Sadie Dingfelder
Speaking of Psychology
English - January 27, 2021 11:30 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 676 ratingsLife Sciences Science Health & Fitness Mental Health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
After a lifetime of thinking that she was just a little bit bad at remembering people, Sadie Dingfelder learned that she had prosopagnosia, a disorder more colloquially known as face blindness. Harvard psychologist Joe DeGutis, PhD, who runs the research study that Dingfelder participated in, joins her to discuss how people with face blindness see the world, why it’s such an interesting disorder to study, and promising treatments that his lab is exploring.
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Joe DeGutis, PhD
Boston Attention and Learning Lab
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