Big Picture Science – About Face: Nancy Kanwisher

by Gary Niederhoff on July 14, 2014

About Face – Nancy Kanwisher click to listen!

Part 3 of Skeptic Check: About Face, featuring Nancy Kanwisher, cognitive neuroscientist, at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, on why we’re prone to “see” faces in pareidolic visions, rather than other body parts or objects.
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