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."

Comments

A more interesting experiment

[RobertB-DC]

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."

A more interesting experiment would have been to morph Marilyn Monroe into Pierce Brosnan, and Margaret Thatcher into Tony Blair. Or Marilyn to Tony and Pierce to Maggie. Or for that matter, Marilyn Monroe to Marilyn Manson to Charles Manson...

Don't know that you would have gotten much useful research done, though.

Manson not Monroe

[amigoro]

From TFA: 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

If you take Marilyn Manson's face to start with, you came make it look like Maggie Thatcher without any morphinh.

Moderate this comment
Negative: Offtopic Flamebait Troll Redundant
Positive: Insightful Interesting Informative Funny