If you were to close your eyes and count backwards from 100. Would you be able to effortlessly and instantly visualize each number as you counted backwards?
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hmm I'm not very good at visualizing in general but I'm GREAT at text
I can do this really easily and also change the font (Helvetica? Impact? COMIC SANS??) and maybe even some transition animations (flip seems nice, or wipe or fade)
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Omg you’re a superhero wth. Nice
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but this is really interesting because I definitely can't visualize faces or animals or places in much detail at all
so maybe all the time reading as a kid instead of going outside & looking at people/places/things does something to brain??
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i've heard anecdotally from other people who learned to read early that it might've partially displaced facial recognition... was it from ?
Huh. Learned to read at 4 (signs and picture books, not like small text :P), am mostly faceblind and aphantasic. Checks out!
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and 4 others
I read something in @JoHenrich 's The Secret of Our Success that might shed some light on what's up.
Learning to read competes with facial recognition, for space in the fusiform gyrus. Pushes face recognition out of the left side, and into the right hemisphere as best it can
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and 5 others
Here are some excerpts from The Secret of Our Success, on reading & facial recognition:
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