BIO SCI 35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oliver Sacks, Chuck Close, Face Perception

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIO SCI 35
• Professor: Andrea Nicholas

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Expert visual perception also is susceptible to inversion effects. When the images are inverted, even the people with superior face perception cannot identify the faces. First reports of face blindness in 1947 following brain injury. Could not recognize human faces, even his own. Faces all distorted the same way - eyes squinted, one eyebrow too high and the nose turned several degrees. The inability to recognize faces is called prosopagnosia. The art of chuck close at the broad. Recognized 17 out of 17 famous faces (obscure photos) In 1760 described the visual hallucinations of charles lullin (89), his maternal grandfather. De morsier (1936) labelled visual hallucinations without delusions that appear after ocular degradation as the charles bonnet syndrome. Biosci 35 brain and behavior page 1 appear after ocular degradation as the charles bonnet syndrome. Twin studies indicate that face recognition ability is highly heritable. Face processing in monkey cortex - face heading detectors.