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We have specialized circuitry to process faces. People are congenitally deficient in this regard suffer from prosopagnosia (in the same way that some people wit
by pygy_ 16y ago
We have specialized circuitry to process faces. People are congenitally deficient in this regard suffer from prosopagnosia (in the same way that some people with normal hearing are tone deaf).
That said, you're not completely off track. It is very likely that said circuitry becomes better at disinguishing the kind of faces it has been initially trained with.
A nice complement for this study would be to test mixed race and adopted people.
- lukeschlather 16y agoI don't have any studies on hand, but I specifically remember a lecture I attended where it was noted that infants do not have specialized circuitry to process faces. Their affinity for their caretakers, at least at a very early age, is actually not a result of recognizing people, but of the caretakers subconsciously learning how to better provoke an affectionate response. You also saw this effect with the emotional robot Kismet at MIT. Its reactions were totally hardwired, but it managed to fool people into believing that it "liked" them.