Neuroscience
From today's New York Times:
Faces, faces everywhere
By ELIZABETH SVOBODA
Published: February 13, 2007
[snip]
Why do we see faces everywhere we look: in the Moon, in Rorschach inkblots, in the interference patterns on the surface of oil spills? Why are some Lay’s chips the spitting image of Fidel Castro, and why was a cinnamon bun with a striking likeness to Mother Teresa kept for years under glass in a coffee shop in Nashville, where it was nicknamed the Nun Bun?
Compelling answers are beginning to emerge from biologists and computer scientists who are gaining new insights into how the brain recognizes and processes facial data.
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The Neuropsychology of Grilled-Cheese Sandwich Faces
From today's New York Times:
Faces, faces everywhere
By ELIZABETH SVOBODA
Published: February 13, 2007
[snip]
Why do we see faces everywhere we look: in the Moon, in Rorschach inkblots, in the interference patterns on the surface of oil spills? Why are some Lay’s chips the spitting image of Fidel Castro, and why was a cinnamon bun with a striking likeness to Mother Teresa kept for years under glass in a coffee shop in Nashville, where it was nicknamed the Nun Bun?
Compelling answers are beginning to emerge from biologists and computer scientists who are gaining new insights into how the brain recognizes and processes facial data.
[snip]
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
- Why Moving Faces Are Easier To Recognise
Psychologists have previously shown that moving faces are easier to recognise than a static image of a face. Karen Lander and Lewis Chuang at the University of Manchester sought to find out why. In a first experiment, 48 psychology students viewed degraded...
- Dreaming "big Dreams"
From today's New York Times Winding Through ‘Big Dreams’ Are the Threads of Our Lives By REBECCA CATHCART Published: July 3, 2007 [snip] “Back to life” or “visitation” dreams, as they are known among dream specialists and psychologists,...
- Military Traumatic Brain Injury (tbi)
Thanks to The Washington Post and ABC News, treatment issues related to TBI and other war-related injuries have been at the forefront of a healthy dose public attention over the past month. From the New York Times and International Herald Tribune: For...
- The Insula Is Making Headlines!
From a report in The New York Times about the neuroscience of smoking: Scientists Tie Part of Brain to Urge to Smoke By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: January 25, 2007 [snip] The insula, for years a wallflower of brain anatomy, has emerged...
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