Yellow and yellowish G. nivalis

[emma T]

Lol I'm rubbish with people's names , I figure that part of my brain was taken over by plants and plant names !

[Matt Bishop]

Hi Emma,

I am not alone after all!

M

[Alan_b]

I have the same problem.  And faces too.  But I cannot identify hundreds of different snowdrops either so goodness knows what that bit of my brain get used for?

[Matt Bishop]

With you on the faces front also (and it depends on the Snowdrop too!)

M

[emma T]

Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the population.[1] The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus,[2] which activates specifically in response to faces. Thanks to this specialization, most people recognize faces much more effectively than they do similarly complex inanimate objects. For those with prosopagnosia, the ability to recognize faces depends on the less-sensitive object recognition system.

[emma T]

Of no help with the snowdrop but thought it was interesting .

 I watched a program about a lady chess grandmaster who used the facial recognition parts of her brain to memorise chess moves , she was rubbish with people's names and faces , so maybe it's possible to use that part of your brain for plant recognition instead ? Just a hypothesis I have no way of testing . 

[steve owen]

Matt
I have developed or selected a number of yellows but two have seemed sufficiently distinctive to be worth a wider circulation, Moonlight and Steve's Yellow.

[Alan_b]

Any pictures, Steve?  Or a description; what makes them distinctive?  I appreciate that it's Matt who needs to know but I'm sure the rest of us are curious.

[Matt Bishop]

Matt
I have developed or selected a number of yellows but two have seemed sufficiently distinctive to be worth a wider circulation, Moonlight and Steve's Yellow.

Thanks Steve, Could you possibly email me your contact no. so I can ring you later on?

[Matt Bishop]

Dear All,

In thre course of writing an account for the yellows I need to discuss our understanding of 'Blonde Inge' and its segregate forms and I'm hoping that somebody out there might be able to put me in touch with Nicholas Topp.......?

Best wishes,

Matt

[annew]

Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the population.[1] The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus,[2] which activates specifically in response to faces. Thanks to this specialization, most people recognize faces much more effectively than they do similarly complex inanimate objects. For those with prosopagnosia, the ability to recognize faces depends on the less-sensitive object recognition system.

Emma, your avatar is not helping my Prosopagnosia....also your name is not a Latin or Greek binomial, which would have helped.

[emma T]

Sorry ,I'm an introvert , I like masks ! I am a Homo sapiens if that helps