PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cheese Sandwich, Pareidolia
12 Mar 2016
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There was a face life structure on the surface of mars from afar. It was actually just a mountain range that looked like a face from the angle in which it was taken. Big events are expected to have big causal explanation: the foreign leader dies, the leader lives. Case 1 tends to have a greater conspiracy theory behind it. The complete stimulus is processed as a face. The fuciform face area is used to recognize faces. There is a innate preference for faces (study done at mcmaster with new born babies) Pareidolia: when you tend to see faces (eg. the grilled cheese) and attribute emotional responses. Top down processing and experiences with the environment shape how we interact with faces. You will have the best ability to discriminate against faces that you see regularly (owen race effect) The facial hue hypothesis: colour in uences what face is the most attractive.
