In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...
A 58-year-old man with a rare medical condition sees faces normally on screens and paper, but in person, they take on a demonic quality. The patient has a unique case of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a ...
Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you looked at that face, there was a chance it would appear distorted. That’s what life is like for a person with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO. Now, ...
For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville. “I just woke up and was sitting on the couch watching TV when my roommate came into the room, and (looking ...
The human mind is one of the most magnificent creations ever made. It performs magical feats and is a complex "machine" that scientists and psychologists are constantly trying to figure out. When it ...
University of Lincoln provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not be surprised to hear that both men may have ...
An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon in which our perception of an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a visual Illusion of a caricature-style optical illusion face ...