Psychology & Psychiatry

There's a man in the moon: Why our brains see human faces everywhere

It's so commonplace we barely give it a second thought, but human brains seem hardwired to see human faces where there are noneā€”in objects as varied as the moon, toys, plastic bottles, tree trunks and vacuum cleaners. Some ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Depression symptoms bias the perception of facial expressions

Previous studies have reported attentive negative bias in visual information processing in depression, but it is not known whether there is a similar negative bias in automatic face perception. To investigate this issue, ...

Neuroscience

Do people subconsciously judge face-likeness?

The research team at the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory of the Toyohashi University of Technology has revealed that face-likeness is judged by early visual processing at around 100 milliseconds after viewing an ...

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