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<blockquote data-quote="Wrath of the Swarm" data-source="post: 1522319" data-attributes="member: 16402">There are several neurological disorders that might prove useful in a game.&nbsp; For example, rarely people become convinced that their loved ones are been replaced by exact duplicates.&nbsp; They acknowledge that the person in question looks, acts, and in all ways seems to be who they're supposed to be, but they have an utter conviction that they're not.&nbsp; It's thought that this is caused by damage to the &quot;emotional response and familiarity&quot; memory systems - it's rather like retroactive amnesia, only with recognition instead of memories.What if the person is perfectly normal, and they're sensing something intuitively?&nbsp; What if the loved ones really had been replaced?Or what about a person who's had brain damage and can no longer recognize faces?&nbsp; (We're primed to interpret images as faces, which is why the highly stylized &quot;smiley face&quot; is perceived as such.)&nbsp; Imagine a game where a patient suddenly begins recognizing certain faces as terrible things.&nbsp; Because they can no longer use their brains' automated facial recognition modules, they are free to notice disturbing patterns most people can't perceive...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wrath of the Swarm, post: 1522319, member: 16402"] There are several neurological disorders that might prove useful in a game. For example, rarely people become convinced that their loved ones are been replaced by exact duplicates. They acknowledge that the person in question looks, acts, and in all ways seems to be who they're supposed to be, but they have an utter conviction that they're not. It's thought that this is caused by damage to the "emotional response and familiarity" memory systems - it's rather like retroactive amnesia, only with recognition instead of memories. What if the person is perfectly normal, and they're sensing something intuitively? What if the loved ones really had been replaced? Or what about a person who's had brain damage and can no longer recognize faces? (We're primed to interpret images as faces, which is why the highly stylized "smiley face" is perceived as such.) Imagine a game where a patient suddenly begins recognizing certain faces as terrible [i]things[/i]. Because they can no longer use their brains' automated facial recognition modules, they are free to notice disturbing patterns most people can't perceive... [/QUOTE]

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