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Why Our Brains See Faces Everywhere:

roughbarked said:

Why Our Brains See Faces Everywhere:

> Time Cells Identified in Our Brains Encode The Flow of Time, Scientists Say

Ta. I’ve been wondering about this, a lot.

> During the sessions, the electrodes recorded specific neurons in the hippocampus firing in response to the experiment, both during specific moments as images were displayed, during gaps when no images were shown, and at pauses where participants were asked to predict what image would be shown next from a sequence already displayed.

It’s a start, but not good enough. How do they encode one second for example? How about one minute? How about 8 hours? What is the feedback loop or is there no feedback loop at all?

The article looks at irregular firing within a 10 second interval.

> New instrument begins measuring total light ever emitted in the universe

The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was a payload flown aboard a Black Brant XII sounding rocket to collect data about cosmic infrared background. In 2014 results from CIBER indicated an excess of infrared light, beyond what is emitted by galaxies.

This will be the fourth flight for CIBER on a NASA sounding rocket. The previous launches were in 2009, 2010, and 2012 from the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

This article is from 2013. Is that “new”?

>Why Our Brains See Faces Everywhere:

they don’t mention it in the article in the OP, but the mixed array of active and passive ‘radar’ needs start somewhere, and of vision needs scan things at a distance, and in poor light also (has similar processing demands), and amongst other things (foliage or whatever, or among other people)

the detection of a voice signature is equally impressive

I also note a person can identify posture and related gait (how a person walks) very quickly, identify people from that alone minus a face to work with

while the face template thing seems very powerful, you see faces in the clouds and whatever, I think other templates are probably near as powerful, if not equally

but the face template is really important cradle to grave, evolution has selected for it being so

also, of a someone that approaches you in the dark or poor light, or any surprise approach, that maybe intends harm, you have perhaps fractions of a second to identify if the encounter is potential trouble, a hostile or not, and respond however

transition said:

>Why Our Brains See Faces Everywhere:

they don’t mention it in the article in the OP, but the mixed array of active and passive ‘radar’ needs start somewhere, and of vision needs scan things at a distance, and in poor light also (has similar processing demands), and amongst other things (foliage or whatever, or among other people)

the detection of a voice signature is equally impressive

I also note a person can identify posture and related gait (how a person walks) very quickly, identify people from that alone minus a face to work with

while the face template thing seems very powerful, you see faces in the clouds and whatever, I think other templates are probably near as powerful, if not equally

but the face template is really important cradle to grave, evolution has selected for it being so

also, of a someone that approaches you in the dark or poor light, or any surprise approach, that maybe intends harm, you have perhaps fractions of a second to identify if the encounter is potential trouble, a hostile or not, and respond however

I am aware that people know me with a mask on and I’ve heard others say the same about others.
So there’s no way I could rob a bank locally.