Shoot the whole day down. You get up all bright and breezy on a Monday morning, and what happens? You come upon this article. It's about face recognition and the right fusiform gyrus, a part of your brain enabling that. Actually, it's interesting. Honest, it is. From the article - summarizing a report which appears in Nature Neuroscience - you'll learn that...
Humans can remember up to 10,000 faces. In experiments, 35 years after leaving school, people have proved able to identify 90% of their classmates.Ten thousand! Let's see: there's Amanda, Amanda and Amanda, and Martin, Geoff, Lionel and Sir Alex. That's seven. I better finish it later. You'll also learn...
"Our study shows the brain tries to force us to pin a single identity to a face. So a face that is 60% Marilyn Monroe but 40% Margaret Thatcher will be identified as an older version of Monroe, while an image 40% Monroe and 60% Thatcher will be seen as the sexier side of Thatcher."And this is where things go wrong. Because accompanying the piece in the paper version is a series of photographs showing you how the one face morphs into the other: Monroe into Thatcher and vice versa.
I ask you. Have they no pity? An image of utter loveliness, twentieth century icon of female beauty, and the loathly witch herself - whose very countenance evokes all the ghastly qualities of voice that send you scrambling for the remote. If you can bear to look at this cruel trick upon the public, go here, or to the panel here.