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Face Recognition Needs 3 Areas Of Human Brain
sushant_bhatia_progr writes "Nature has an article on the recent discovery that face recognition in humans targets 3 areas of the human brain. Using mugshots of celebrities, Pia Rotshtein at University College London and her colleagues have shown that there are at least three separate areas for processing and recognising faces. One processes the physical features of the face, one decides whether or not the face is known, and a third retrieves information about that person, such as their name. Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, or that of James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan transformed into current prime minister Tony Blair."
Gotta love having enough celebs with mugshots to run an entire research experiment. :)
transforming a picture of GWB into a Monkey?
to kill off men and women's fantasies. Now all I see is Margret Thacher sing happy birthday, Mr. President.
*shudder*
I think I just inherited Wil Wheaton's sleeping disorder.
If I wrote something witty, you would say I stole it from somewhere.
When was Blair or Thatcher arrested?
I guess it's not just american politicians that are all crooks!
it's a friggin' joke!
"Rothstein's team used a computer to create a series of images in which the countenance of film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, or that of James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan transformed into current prime minister Tony Blair."
And the fourth part of the brain. Recognizing the horror of it all.
We need 3 parts of the brain to recognize celebrities.
-One to recognize the face and map it to its info.
-One to categorize the info as hot girl or not.
-One to ignore the not-hot-girls.
Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
Whoever though of that is one sick scary F***er!!!
... it's pretty clear that Tony Blair has been morphing into Thatcher for years.
Shame he doesn't have her balls, though.
Sometimes, "context" can be more telling than just the face. Brittany's are way bigger, IMHO.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
"...film star Marilyn Monroe gradually morphed into that of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher."
Or as it's known in medicine, 'the anti-Viagra.'
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
I think the fact that this is currently modded Funny is funnier than the actual post...
The title implies these areas are needed, but really, only that activity is found in these three areas. To show need, they would have to ablate these areas and block recognition (and even that could have some problems). They show sufficiency at best.
I imagine you could do this in chimps with chimp celebrities, but outside of GW, we may not know who's who of chimp celebrities.
I didn't RTFA, but this is just a thought.
"hmm, John's an unusual name"
i bet they will remember you