We are constantly recognizing faces countless times a day, but how do our brains distinguish those faces so easily?
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Sources:
FFA:
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/17/11/4302.full.pdf
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/361/1476/2109.short?casa_token=Sz9B358nGU8AAAAA:lpXDDNL_DnQUvPqYRrs_qdWVamlfZFGPXNySBFiZXAi6_X7wYQ35VBnzUmXyBMVZ3DA0JGSuAESd2JQKoQ
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kalanit_Grill-Spector/publication/8625485_Grill-Spector_K_Knouf_N_Kanwisher_N_The_fusiform_face_area_subserves_face_perception_not_generic_within-category_identification_Nat_Neurosci_7_555-562/links/0fcfd5093ebf1093b2000000/Grill-Spector-K-Knouf-N-Kanwisher-N-The-fusiform-face-area-subserves-face-perception-not-generic-within-category-identification-Nat-Neurosci-7-555-562.pdf
http://www.biac.duke.edu/education/courses/spring03/cogdev/readings/I.%20Gauthier%20et%20al%20(1999).pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/fusiform-face-area
Thatcher Illusion:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/sep/19/the-thatcher-illusion-are-faces-special
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00289/full
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1981-24946-001
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/p260225
Prosopagnosia:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30580-8
https://prosopagnosiaresearch.org/index/information
http://n.neurology.org/content/32/4/331.short
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14640749308401064
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004269899400273O
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hbm.10043
Pareidolia:
https://www.livescience.com/25448-pareidolia.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980010/
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fusiform_Face_Area_-_animation1.gif
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fusiform_Face_Area.png
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hurtre/4689253598
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ajdovska_deklica_-_viewed_from_Erjav%C4%8Deva_ko%C4%8Da.JPG
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https://freesound.org/people/roachpowder/sounds/170229/
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