PSY BEH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Cue, Prosopagnosia, Symmetry In Biology
20 Jul 2016
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30 minutes postpartum faces > other complex stimulation faces > scrambled faces genetically wired for faces o an important process. Infant eye perception seven months fear versus non-fearful (already reading emotions) direct gaze versus averted no other primates have whites in their eyes (is a social cue) social communication o o. Face perception view faces more than other objects special brain areas for faces (billions of neurons) gather important information (sophisticated process) o identity: mood o age, race, health, attractiveness (estimate of reproductive potential, motives, attention. Faces in nature evolutionary pressures on faces faces different in different niches camouflage. Mimicry: mimic other animals to fool you. Larger brain cavity (the human brain is shrinking because we are now a social species, we don"t need to know enough to live alone) Normal face processing begins at primary visual cortex ventral route o visual cortex amygdala hypothalamus dorsal route o visual cortex sts ipl cingulate gyrus hypothalamus.
