SDAM and Big Picture Thinking
Memory scientists posit that SDAM comes with benefits as well as deficits. Specifically, we should excel at generalizing across experiences, finding regularities in the data, and big picture thinking. What’s your experience?
What should we call ourselves?
I suspect that aphantasia and SDAM are two angles on the same basic phenomena. What do you think?
Aphantasia without SDAM?
If you can’t visualize, how can you mentally time travel to moments in your past?
Any other klutzes in the house?
I was a clumsy kid and I had no idea it was because of my stereoblindness (amblyopia and strabismus). What were your experiences growing up? Do you wish you’d had a better, more technical label?
A faceblind review of “Faces in the crowd”
Have you seen this film? I don’t reccomend it, but the director did depict prosopagnosia in an interesting way.
There’s a ton of proso in k-dramas
You know how amnesia used to be a huge trope in American soap operas? The equivalent, in South Korea, seems to be prosopagnosia.
Prosopagnosia on screen
South Korea is experiencing an epidemic of acquired prosopagnosia among it’s sexy emotionally unavailable CEOs. Meanwhile, in America, faceblind murderers and murderees abound.