"We found that faces aren't special in the way many scientists once thought," said Maximilian Riesenhuber, assistant professor of neuroscience and senior author of the study.
"Rather, they are particular group of objects which the brain has learned to distinguish very well, much as it would for any other similar objects that are critical to human survival and communication."
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I don't know that this is that different from the statements that we are hardwired to see faces. It just removes the primacy from that statement.
However, we can still point out that those who can't see it as a face may be visual pattern recognition-challenged, so why should we accept their other visual assessments to be accurate?
Then we need to point out the ones who say recognizing it as a face is subjective, but who are not recognizing that not recognizing it as a face is equally subjective.
Tell 'em, Carol.
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