Familiar faces Bashny.Net

In the late 19th century among criminologists view was that in the eyes of the victim can see the portrait of the murderer. Experiences of American psychologists have shown that our eyes actually have the most accurate memory for faces, however, is not as photographic - shared with the public the American Psychological Association. Psychologists an experiment on students. Initially offered guinea see 36 portraits. After that, each picture has changed beyond recognition, but so that some features have remained the same. Of course, the volunteers did not see these metamorphoses. After this experiment, each participant was offered several times three pictures, among which were those that changed. While considering the subject of the image, scientists have observed the direction of gaze. They wanted a picture of the first to attract attention, and what subject will be considered the longest. It turned out that, despite the strong modifications eyes accurately stopped at a familiar face. If the person later made another selection, the eyes, so to speak, we agreed and began to consider more closely supposedly already a familiar face.

Source: scienceblog.ru/2011/12/06/glaza-bezoshibochno-opredelyayut-znakomye-lica/