双语新闻：男子患脸盲症不识妻儿 只能“听声辨人”（图）

双语新闻：男子患脸盲症不识妻儿 只能“听声辨人”（图）

Daniel Devlin lives in the same house as his children and sees them every day – yet he is unable to recognise them at all.
　　丹尼尔•德夫林（Daniel Devlin）与他的孩子们生活在同一屋檐下，天天见面，然而，丹尼尔却认不出自己的孩子。

Mr Devlin, 46, from Nunhead, London, is living with a bizarre condition called prosopagnosia, also known as face-blindness, meaning he struggles to recognise faces - even those of his own family.
　　来自伦敦南海德（Nunhead），今年46岁的德夫林先生患有一种奇怪的病症，叫做人面失认症（prosopagnosia），又称脸盲症。得了这种病也就意味着他有脸部识别障碍，即使是自己家人的面孔也辨认不出。

Mr Devlin, a painter, has been forced to memorise his family's voices and body language in order to know who they are.
　　德夫林先生是一名画家，他不得不靠记忆家人的声音和肢体语言来分辨他们谁是谁。 

But reading voices and body language doesn't always work, and has even mistaken another boy for his son when picking his children up from school before.
　　但是通过声音和肢体语言来分辨也不是次次奏效的，他曾经在去学校接孩子时把别的小男孩误认成自己的儿子。

Mr Devlin said: 'Humans have a special ability to recognise people by seeing their faces, I really don't have this ability.
　　德夫林先生说：“人类有一种通过看脸来辨认出他人的特殊能力，但是我却没有这种能力。”

'Maybe a good way to imagine what it's like to have prosopagnosia is to try and recognise people by what their hands look like.
　　“试试通过看手来认人，这可能是了解得了人面失认症的人是什么感觉的好办法．”

'Every person has a different hand but if someone showed you a photo of someone's hands, you might struggle to recognise who the person is, even if that person turns out to be someone you know very well.
　　“每个人的手都是不同的，但是如果有人给你看一张某个人的手部照片，你可能无法轻易分辨出那个人是谁，即便那是你熟知的人。”

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 'I just thought that everyone was the same or maybe I just wasn't putting in as much effort as others to remember people.
　　“我本以为大家都是这样的，也或许只是我没有跟别人一样花费很多精力去记住别人的长相而已。” 

'If I saw my wife Katarina somewhere unexpected and she pretended not to know me, then I'm not sure I would know it was her.
　　“如果我在某地与我的妻子卡塔林娜不期而遇，而她假装不认识我，我不能确信自己可以认出那是她。”

'It often leaves me in some awkward situations, especially when I don't recognise people that I should or think I know people that I don't.
　　“这使我常常陷入尴尬的境地，尤其是当我认不出那些我应该认识的人或以为自己认识对方但其实并不认识的时候。”

'I have learnt to recognise people based on their body language and voices instead.'
　　“我已经学会了通过肢体语言和声音来认人。”

Experts said propagnosia is not linked to problems with vision, memory or intelligence.
　　专家称人面失认症与视觉，记忆或者智力问题无关。 

Instead, it is thought to be the result of impairment in the right 'fusiform gyrus' of the brain - a fold that appears to coordinate facial perception and memory.
　　相反，专家认为这是大脑右侧梭状回（fusiform gyrus）受损的结果，这部分脑回可能有协调面部认知和记忆力的作用。

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