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Find out why we can spot faces in inanimate objects and learn what facial features are the most important for us to recognise a face.
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Faces come in all shapes and sizes, and we’re incredibly good at recognising them. In this activity you will explore your ability to find faces in everyday objects.
By going out and looking for faces on inanimate objects you will learn about what combination of features is crucial in allowing us to recognise what we see as a face.
Seeing faces, or familiar objects in random patterns is part of a phenomenon known as apophenia. This has been described as our need to make sense of randomness and find patterns and meanings where there aren’t any. So a cloud that looks like a dog fits into our model of the world better than a shapeless mass of water vapour.
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cool ExpeRiment 🙂
I'm not going to lie, I covered my last office with 200 sticky eyes before I left…
This is more of a WHY do we recognize faces video, rather than a HOW do we recognize faces video.
just lost 5 minutes. i learned nothing. eyes. yes.
Love all the psychology for kids videos brings a new way of thinking for them 🙂
I really wish RI would separate the conference videos from this kind of videos (kid stuff) . I didn't subscribed to this…
what value does this have
This is about Pareidolia, not facial recognition. The RI should be better than this…
(I speak as a member of the RI with Prosopagnosia who got excited at the title of the video)
put Random Googlie eyes on things 🙂