Other brain-injured patients whom Glyn and Jane went on to study included one with optic aphasia, a selective difficulty in naming visual objects, and one who could recognise objects from touch but not put together information about them or their use.
Animal psychologist Karen McComb, also at Sussex, played back elephant sounds – the deep, gargling rumble they make – to discover how many individual voices one animal could recognise.
I am sadly ignorant of the stars, but within an hour I felt I had the basics to find my way around the night sky, starting with the one constellation I could recognise - what I affectionately call "the saucepan" (the central part of the Plough, Ursa Major).
Even listening to him on the radio as a child, I remember he was always a violinist one could immediately recognise.
The mood was more relaxed than at any of Galliano's previous shows for Margiela, and the first one at which one could clearly recognise the high-spirited glamour that once made Galliano's Dior such gleeful romps.
"If my mother changed one piece for another, I could recognise immediately what had been altered, that there was a button - a player - in the wrong place!
I also found I could recognise almost no-one on Friendfeed in the way that I can routinely recognise people I follow on Twitter – even people I don t interact with that mush.
As a teenage guitar prodigy, not only could Amadou distinguish a Gibson from a Fender Strat by its sound, "I was one of the few musicians who could recognise the precise provenance of pieces of Malian music, the region they came from – Kayes, Bamako, Sikasso, Ségou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu".
And Pietro's situation in A Magnificent Haunting is one that slightly lost daydreamers of any gender or orientation could recognise.
