I've been fascinated by the mechanisms behind human facial recognition ever since I read Peter Watts 'Blindsight'. Near the end he introduces an idea similar to

I've been fascinated by the mechanisms behind human facial recognition ever since I read Peter Watts 'Blindsight'. Near the end he introduces an idea similar to the Chernoff face[1], plots of multivariate data in the shape of a human face. The idea is that humans are so keyed into recognizing subtle nuances in facial expressions, we're better at interpreting mulitvariate data graphed as a facial expression. Some interesting parts from this interview: - She surprisingly claims that she's not good at recognizing emotions. - She can recognize adults based on how they looked as children. This suggests there's a sort of 'fuzzing' process that allows her to interpolate aging. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face