Abstract
A Face Scavenger Hunt: Why We See Faces in Objects without Faces
Highlights
If you look around your classroom, you will see a room full of living things with faces: students, teachers, and maybe a class pet
Our world has a lot of fascinating things for us to look at, but to understand why we see these things in the first place, it is useful to learn about how the brain makes it possible for us to see things
The fusiform face area is an area of the temporal lobe that serves as the final stop in an assembly line where face parts are put together to make a face
Summary
If you look around your classroom, you will see a room full of living things with faces: students, teachers, and maybe a class pet. How can scientists figure out what different parts of the FIgUre 1 kids.frontiersin.org brain, like the FFA or the occipital lobe, do? The FFA was discovered by asking volunteers to look at pictures of faces and objects, while the scientists looked (using fMRI) for brain areas that were more active when people looked at faces than when they looked at other objects. One group of scientists was curious about whether the FFA is active when people are experiencing facial pareidolia [1] After all, this is a situation in which people see faces, but they are looking at non-face objects. Evolution means that all the kinds of living things that exist today, like people, developed from earlier forms of living things, which experienced changes that were made to help them survive
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