John Suler's PhotoPsychology
Face Recognition
A proportionally large area of the human brain is devoted to processing information about the faces we see in the world around us. Research shows that even at birth, infants prefer to look at pictures of normal faces rather than ones in which facial features are scrambled, as if recognition of the human face is “hardwired.” It’s impossible to know what infants feel when they see jumbled faces, but adults often describe them as disturbing and alien.
Face Recognition
A proportionally large area of the human brain is devoted to processing information about the faces we see in the world around us. Research shows that even at birth, infants prefer to look at pictures of normal faces rather than ones in which facial features are scrambled, as if recognition of the human face is “hardwired.” It’s impossible to know what infants feel when they see jumbled faces, but adults often describe them as disturbing and alien.