One of the first cognitive abilities that we develop after birth is the ability to recognize faces, but according to a recent article in Scientific American we can still get confused by such basic qualities like sexuality under the right circumstances.
Read all about it in What's in a face?
Read all about it in What's in a face?
Our nervous systems are hardwired to detect and process faces rapidly and efficiently, oftentimes with very scarce details available. The pictures in the accompanying slide are often referred to as Mooney faces, after cognitive psychologist Craig Mooney, who used similar images in his research on perception. Mooney faces illustrate how little visual information it takes to “see” a face.
