Category Archives: Face perception

The Walking Dead Sydrome

Posted on October 24, 2014 by diplopi

Since Halloween is coming up soon, its interesting to know that there are people walking around believing that they are actually dead. The Cotard delusion, or the walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental illness that causes a person to believe … Continue reading →

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Photographer Uses Neuroscience To Redefined The Meaning Of Beauty

Posted on October 8, 2014 by diplopi

This fascinating photographic project, titled the ‘Original Ideal’, is an impressive blend of neuroscience and photography and attempts to explore and reveal the deepest part of our personality – how we perceive ourselves. All subjects were placed in a minimal studio setting where … Continue reading →

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New Technology May Reveal How Long You’ll Live

Posted on July 3, 2014 by diplopi

Facial recognition technology may soon become personal, as a group of scientists is working on a system that analyze an individual’s longevity prospects based on how his or her face has aged. The research is still in its early stages, but … Continue reading →

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An Algorithm That Recognizes Faces Better Than People Can

Posted on April 24, 2014 by diplopi

Computer scientists are announcing they’ve made a program that is better at matching photos than people are, and this is the first time a program has performed better than people at recognizing people. The new algorithm, developed at the Chinese … Continue reading →

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Change Blindness

Posted on April 17, 2014 by diplopi

Dan Levin and Daniel Simons conducted a person-change study, and found that about 50% of people didn’t notice they were talking to a different person. See the clip here: This sort of person-change rarely (if ever) happens in the world. You might assume, … Continue reading →

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Beard Trend is ‘Guided by Evolution’

Posted on April 16, 2014 by diplopi

A study from 2013 (The role of facial hair in women’s perceptions of men’s attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities Evolution and Human Behavior 34 (2013) 236-241. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.02.003) looked at men’s and women’s judgments of attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities for … Continue reading →

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Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces

Posted on February 11, 2014 by diplopi

You probably saw dozens of people’s faces today, many more if you live in a city. You may not have been conscious of it, but you were subtly judging every one by its beauty. Your eyes are drawn to more … Continue reading →

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How to Stand out in the Crowd of Photos Online

Posted on February 5, 2014 by diplopi

Why do we remember some faces, while we forget others? It’s done a lot of research on what makes a face stick in the memory, but the reasons are complex. A wide smile when the picture is taken, for example, … Continue reading →

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The Tatcher Effect

Posted on January 29, 2014 by diplopi

The Thatcher effect or Thatcher illusion is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. It is named after British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on whose photograph the … Continue reading →

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What Caricatures Can Teach Us About Facial Recognition

Posted on January 25, 2014 by diplopi

“To better identify and remember people, we turn them into caricatures,” Wired reporter Ben Austen writes in “What Caricatures Can Teach Us About Facial Recognition”. The story explores our incredible aptitude for distinguishing one visage from another by focusing on each punim’s … Continue reading →

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