TESTS on a man who can recognise Charlie Chaplin but not a camel reinforce
the notion that our brains store information about people and objects
separately. The man, who’d had a stroke, had no trouble naming famous people
such as Chaplin and Bob Geldof. But he struggled with objects such as camels or
moles. There have been plenty of reports of stroke patients who can no longer
recognise people. But this study, led by Rick Hanley at Essex University, is the
first to describe the reverse syndrome (Cortex vol 38, p 23).
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