Destinguish Genuine from Fake Smiles - Page 2

Lt. Killer M · 10-09-2003, 16:31

5/10.

very interesting that they turn them upside down. I once read (and confirmed that for myself) that the way the brain assembles images from the raw data depends on the amount of 'expected' information, so that a face that is upside down doesn't fit, takes longer to turn into a 'proper' picture - consequently, you lose out on noticing details. Also, an eye is an eye, upside down or not - so you tend to read upside down eyes as you would correctly angeld ones - resulting in a total inability to judge emotions, as the differences in movement between upper and lower eyelid contain the info - which one promptly mixes up!

I tested this witha few pics of a girl, she was making faces at the camera in about half of them. I showed these to my friends upside down (full face or just the eyes, rest covered). Upside down, it was hard to determine which were the grimacing pics from the full portrait pics and totally impossible fromt he eyes!

anarres · 10-09-2003, 17:30

Apparently we have a significant part of the brain put to one side solely for the purpose of recognising faces and interpreting them. As Killer says - once you change the 'layout' that part of the brain is fucked, and you have to try and use the rest of it, no 'intuition' allowed...

Lt. Killer M · 11-09-2003, 02:02

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quote:Originally posted by anarres

Apparently we have a significant part of the brain put to one side solely for the purpose of recognising faces and interpreting them. As Killer says - once you change the 'layout' that part of the brain is fucked, and you have to try and use the rest of it, no 'intuition' allowed...

I just realized I can edit your message......

as you said: 'fucked'------

10-09-2003, 16:31	#11
Lt. Killer M Emperor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: HAWK!. Posts: 4,365	5/10. very interesting that they turn them upside down. I once read (and confirmed that for myself) that the way the brain assembles images from the raw data depends on the amount of 'expected' information, so that a face that is upside down doesn't fit, takes longer to turn into a 'proper' picture - consequently, you lose out on noticing details. Also, an eye is an eye, upside down or not - so you tend to read upside down eyes as you would correctly angeld ones - resulting in a total inability to judge emotions, as the differences in movement between upper and lower eyelid contain the info - which one promptly mixes up! I tested this witha few pics of a girl, she was making faces at the camera in about half of them. I showed these to my friends upside down (full face or just the eyes, rest covered). Upside down, it was hard to determine which were the grimacing pics from the full portrait pics and totally impossible fromt he eyes! __________________ One more turn..... just one more turn... one MORE!

10-09-2003, 17:30	#12
anarres anarchist butcher Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: United States of Whatever. Posts: 4,677	Apparently we have a significant part of the brain put to one side solely for the purpose of recognising faces and interpreting them. As Killer says - once you change the 'layout' that part of the brain is fucked, and you have to try and use the rest of it, no 'intuition' allowed... __________________ <b>Calculate the probability of culture flips: Flip Calc</b>