When I was 13, I did battery of neuropsychiatric tests. One was the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test. You're asked to copy drawings, and then the examiner asks you to draw them from memory at different times. I don't know how faithful my drawings were, but I was able to draw several of them from memory even after an hour had passed. Why? Because the figures sort of look like things (a plow, a house, etc., etc., etc.) I was all, "I'm gonna beat this test, sucker!")
Then I did the Judgement of Line Orientation test, where the figures look more like random lines than visual things, and scored three standard deviations below the mean. The neuropsych testing me commented on it. (He knew exactly what happened :D.)
I've been known not to recognize a place I'm extremely familiar with, when approaching it from the direction opposite that which I usually take.
ME, TOO. In my case, I think it's related to why I learned to read early. The Roman alphabet has several letters that are actually the same shape turned different ways (b,d,p,q), and I'm wired for recognizing them as different things. But my brain also understands buildings this way where it...is less handy. ("Hey! Coming at this building from a different direction makes it look different! Therefore, it's a different building!")
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Date: 2012-01-31 04:28 pm (UTC)When I was 13, I did battery of neuropsychiatric tests. One was the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test. You're asked to copy drawings, and then the examiner asks you to draw them from memory at different times. I don't know how faithful my drawings were, but I was able to draw several of them from memory even after an hour had passed. Why? Because the figures sort of look like things (a plow, a house, etc., etc., etc.) I was all, "I'm gonna beat this test, sucker!")
Then I did the Judgement of Line Orientation test, where the figures look more like random lines than visual things, and scored three standard deviations below the mean. The neuropsych testing me commented on it. (He knew exactly what happened :D.)
I've been known not to recognize a place I'm extremely familiar with, when approaching it from the direction opposite that which I usually take.
ME, TOO. In my case, I think it's related to why I learned to read early. The Roman alphabet has several letters that are actually the same shape turned different ways (b,d,p,q), and I'm wired for recognizing them as different things. But my brain also understands buildings this way where it...is less handy. ("Hey! Coming at this building from a different direction makes it look different! Therefore, it's a different building!")