When you look at a face, you look nose first
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 07:28
in Psychology & Sociology
While general wisdom says that you look at the eyes first in order to recognise a face, UC San Diego computer scientists now report that you look at the nose first. The nose may be the where the information about the face is balanced in all directions, or the optimal viewing position for face recognition, the researchers from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering propose in a paper recently published in the journal Psychological Science...
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