Yeah Don, it might have been better if you had had a Cadillac Cardinal, or even a Hooded Humvee. In fact a Hooded Humvee might be a nice birding vehicle.
Roger Mayhorn----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'BCBC Listserve'" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:35 PMSubject: [bcbirdclub] Re: Fw: [TN-Bird] Prosopagnosia, fusiform gyrus & birding
That explains the Edsel warbler in my back yard. Don Carrier -----Original Message----- From: bcbirdclub-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcbirdclub-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Mayhorn Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:13 PM To: BCBC ListserveSubject: [bcbirdclub] Fw: [TN-Bird] Prosopagnosia, fusiform gyrus & birdingInteresting email I found on TN Birds. Roger Mayhorn----- Original Message ----- From: "kbreault" <kbreault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <kbreault@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: [TN-Bird] Prosopagnosia, fusiform gyrus & birding TN Birders: There is an interesting article in the August 30th New Yorker written by OliverSacks (the well known neurologist with books including, An Anthropologist onMars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, on the inability some peoplehave to recognize faces and places, prosopagnosia. An abstract is availableat:www.newyorker.com (the full article requires subscription). It appears thatlesions on the fusiform gyrus, a part of the brain also known as the "fusiform face area," and that responsible for face recognition, can cause prosopagnosia. The interface (as it were) between humans and birds is in this part of the article: "Isabel Gauthier and her colleagues tested a group of car experts and a group of expert birders, comparing them with a group of normal subjects.The fusiform face area, they found, was activated when all the groups lookedat pictures of faces. But it was also activated in the car experts when they were asked to identify particular cars, and in the birders when they were asked to identify particular birds. The fusiform face area is tuned primarily for facial recognition, it seems, but some of it can be trained to distinguish individual items of other sorts. (If, then, an expert bird spotter or car buff is unlikely enough to acquire prosopagnosia, he will also, we might suspect, lose his ability to identify birds or cars.)" Note that Gauthier is a professor ofpsychology at Vanderbilt and her publication on birders is: Gauthier, I., etal., "Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition, Nature Neuroscience, 2000, 3 (2), 191-197. Kevin Breault Brentwood =========================================================== Mailing List For Buchanan County Bird Club website: www.bcbirdclub.org Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/bcbirdclub =========================================================== Administrative contact: donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =========================================================== =========================================================== Mailing List For Buchanan County Bird Club website: www.bcbirdclub.org Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/bcbirdclub =========================================================== Administrative contact: donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx===========================================================
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