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Prof. Greg Francis 1/2/13Face perceptionPSY 200Dr. FrancisLecture 11FacesPeople are very sensitive to faces Identity Health Interpretation of environmentWhy do women wearcosmetics?Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityMotherTheresa?"FacesPeople see faces where they do not existFacial FeaturesPeople focus on some key features of faces Eyes, mouth And can fail to notice when things are askewThese images do not look so very different from each other Margaret Thatcher IllusionMartians?"Face-ofgodinWTC on9-11?"Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityFacial FeaturesAnother way to describe what happens is that people are unableto piece together the features and so do not detect the true facialexpressionThese images do not look so very different from each otherFacial AdaptationFurther evidence for representations of facial featurescome from face adaptation studiesPurdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPSY 200: Intro. to Cognitive Psychology 1