The brain needs to remember faces in 3-dimensions
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 09:28
in Psychology & Sociology
In our dynamic 3D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2D snapshots perceived by our eyes (like a camera) to build and store a 3D mental representation of the face, which is resilient to such changes.