26 March 2015
Every Nursery, School And Family Should Play Its Own ‘Face Picture Pairs’ Card Game
Specialists recommend every
family, nursery and school to test children for face perception
disorders with a personalised picture pairs card game with faces of
classmates or family.
Based on recent scientific reports, it is now recommended to
test children more widely for prosopagnosia, generally known as face
blindness.
A creative tool to test
for face blindness
are bespoke picture
pairs
card games.
These card games are sold under the name 'Foto Memo'® and promote
the mental development, sorting, mental image rotation, matching and
develop memory skills. Encoding of novel picture pairs activates the
perirhinal cortex (a region of the brain involved in visual
perception and memory) and is a real memory
jogger for all ages.
Other photo
products recommended by neurologists to families, nurseries and
schools are birthday
calendars,
photo books and group photographs. Read more in the report
http://iitm.be/faceblnd
, with much information on the issue and many helpful recommendations
on how to use portrait pictures to diagnose prosopagnosia and help
sufferers.
Match the picture pairs of
familiar faces
Printing a
personal ‘Foto Memo’® picture pairs game from digital images is
as easy as buying photo prints online. A set of ‘Foto Memo’®
cards of 25 picture
pairs
costs only £12.99 plus £2.99 delivery at
http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts/toys---games/picture-pairs-game.html
within the UK (or €16.99 plus €4.99 delivery from
http://fotoinsight.ie/gift-ideas/toys-and-games/photo-memo.html
to Ireland and most European countries). For prosopagnosia
sufferers, such picture pairs cards can also be used like flashcards
in training vocabulary, but with the pictures of the faces of the
people they want to learn to recognise.
Decorating with portrait
pictures
Portrait
pictures of pupils, educators, teachers and staff decorate many
school halls and classrooms. They help face blind children develop
strategies to distinguish individual faces. For the prosopagnosia
sufferers, specialists recommend making group pictures of similar
looking faces. FotoInsight offers poster
print
(from £1,99 plus p&p), fancy gallery print, foam board prints,
acrylic
prints
and elegant aluminium dibond mounted posters.
Birthday calendars
Calendars
with birthday portraits decorate many classrooms and are a special
way to remember and celebrate birthdays.
Portrait album
If portrait
pictures have been taken for the home, classroom, school gallery or
picture pairs or a birthday calendar, then creating a “face book”
or portrait album will be an exciting project and is easily done.
FotoInsight photographic paper photo
albums
are a top end product, with an extra-strong bind. This allows
children (e.g. the face blind) to take such a portrait album home to
learn to distinguish their peers. It is also a popular, hard
copy
time capsule, of which most parents will be keen to acquire and
preserve
a
print.
Photo booklets start from £5.99
(plus delivery). Photographic paper photobooks
start from £21.95
(plus delivery).
Labels: face blindness, faces, from own photographs, nursery, personalised memory, photo games, photo memo, picture pairs, primary school, print, prosopagnosia, testing
13 September 2006
FotoInsight Presents its Unique Picture Pairs Game
Innovative Photographic Picture Pairs game is a real memory jogger – and path to success right at the start of the new school year.
At last FotoInsight’s quality is available in a new group of games designed for the younger set. The online digital photo printing specialist is launching a “Photographic Picture Pairs” game printed from the customer’s photographs. All that is required are 25 digital images (576 x 432 dpi) to make this traditional and original, specially created game.
Any family that has digital photos can create this unique memory jogger. A durable print on quality cards makes the special view from holidays, family photos and the memories of childhood unforgettable. FotoInsight Ltd. Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: “FotoInsight’s Photographic Picture Pairs are a new dimension in combining own digital images and the ability to create classic games.”
New FotoInsight Picture Pairs game
Match the photos to make-up your pairs. The game promotes the mental development, sorting, mental image rotation, matching and the development of memory skills. Encoding, of novel picture pairs activates the perirhinal cortex (a region of the brain) and is a real memory jogger for all ages. Creating a personal FotoInsight Picture Pairs game from digital camera images is as easy as ordering any other photo prints online. Once the user has arrived at FotoInsight’s photo gift ideas section and has clicked on Print Items, a window appears displaying a range of photo calendars and picture pairs game. The user uploads pictures in JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, TIFF, PSD, BMP and GIF through browser boxes or simply uploads a complete, compressed ZIP or RAR folder. An individual FotoInsight Picture Pairs game costs £9.99 plus £2.99 delivery within the UK (or €13.99 plus €4.99 delivery from http://fotoinsight.ie/gift-ideas/toys-and-games/photo-memo.html to Ireland and most European countries).
Why is FotoInsight Picture Pairs such a valuable game?
Creating individual picture pair games from digital images offers much room for creative ideas with holiday snaps, flowers, landscapes and family pictures. A very unique Photographic Picture Pairs game can also be created from 25 familiar faces, like parents, children, grand parents, cousins and friends. According to researchers at the MIT Williams (Williams, A.O., 2001) there is behavioural evidence from infant experiments and studies of prosopagnosia (or face blindness, affecting about 1 in 50 people) providing evidence for innateness of special human face recognition abilities. There seems to exist an anatomically distinct area for quick, holistic recognition of faces. Some scientists suggest that faces might be processed differently than other objects with special difficulties in inverting face images, making a Photographic Picture Pairs game of familiar faces an extremely valuable and unique learning tool.
Convenience and flexibility
FotoInsight offers a PC and Mac compatible, independent online photo service, fully flexible to be used with images from any digital camera. According to FotoInsight’s management the online service offers an extensive array of award-winning photo printing and photo gifts and photo books, poster printing, photo calendars, photo canvas printing, for the consumer, business, photography, and graphic arts markets. From Cambridge, Mr Brumann comments: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting prints in superior quality.”
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
Klaas Brumann, MD
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
pr (@) fotoinsight.co.uk
Press Contact:
IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews for example with founder Klaas Brumann. IITM will be please to provide images, vouchers for review and background information.
IITM LLP
Email: pr (at) IITM.info
Tel. +1 (202) 470 3242
Keywords: digital photography, photographic gifts, children games, photographic paper, FotoInsight Picture Pairs game, memory training.
Labels: childrens games, face blindness, memory, photo calendars, photo gifts, photo prints, Picture Pairs game, prosopagnosia
