Wednesday, August 23, 2006

See anything?


Anything look like faces? It is just our anthromorphosizing brain. It is working to grasp patterns whereever they may be.

2 comments:

megumi said...

http://www.sapiens.ya.com/dparrado/

see the face?

how are your reports coming?

Kletos Sumboulos said...

Patterns indeed, but even more than that, our brains are wired to see faces. We have special cells that only fire in recognition of human faces (and face-like patterns). There are people who can see just as well as you or I, but who can't recognize their friends because there is a problem with that particular system. Check out this fascinating site of someone with the disorder http://www.prosopagnosia.com/.