Phonagnosia is the inability to recognize voices, yesterday’s Science Daily reports. A case study published in Neuropsychologia reports on “KH,” who is
……unable to recognise people by their voice, including her own daughter whom she has great difficulty identifying over the phone. The woman, known as KH, avoids answering the phone where possible, and for many years has only answered ‘booked calls’. KH books calls with friends or co-workers, so she knows who to expect when the telephone rings at a certain time. In the 1980s, KH had a job in which she introduced herself with a different form of her …read more