Eyebrows and Face Recognition
Do you recognize these two people? In both photographs, the eyebrows have been removed. Here are the photos of the same faces. Is it easier to recognize them this way? This time the eyes have been digitally removed instead of the eyebrows. (Hint: one is a politician, and the other an actor) Richard Nixon and Winona Ryder Scientists have done facial recognition experiments where subjects were presented with many faces altered to have either the eyebrows or the eyes removed. It
