3 ms·
The version of the Mona Lisa in particular is doing interesting things to my brain. Usually the tendency to perceive faces is so strong that you see them with
by pg 16y ago
The version of the Mona Lisa in particular is doing interesting things to my brain. Usually the tendency to perceive faces is so strong that you see them with the slightest encouragement. But when I look at this there is some other hard-wired tendency-- perhaps a tendency to follow lines-- that's fighting with the tendency to perceive faces.
- lkozma 16y agoSomeone explained the appeal of Picasso's cubist faces in a similar way: it is a hack that triggers higher response from our face detectors than a normal face would.