DiscoverInner Cosmos with David EaglemanEp63 "Why do brains love faces?"
Ep63  "Why do brains love faces?"

Ep63 "Why do brains love faces?"

Update: 2024-06-171
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Why do we have so much circuitry in the brain devoted to faces? Why does your electrical plug seem to look like a little face? Did aliens plant a signal for us on Mars, or are we looking at a quirk of our own brains? What is face blindness and what is a super recognizer? What does any of this have to do with looking at a magazine upside down, or why computer algorithms sometimes think a jack-o'-lantern is a person? Join Eagleman for a deep dive into something so fundamental as to be typically invisible.

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Ep63  "Why do brains love faces?"

Ep63 "Why do brains love faces?"

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