RealFeedApp 28-year-old man sees cat features in people
A new report in Cortex reveals how memory of cat features became entangled with human face perception in a 28-year-old patient. Lead author Brad Duchaine from Dartmouth College explained that individual facial features can be extracted from memory to influence ongoing perception.
- Field
- the brain and neuroscience
- What they did
- Researchers described a case of a 28-year-old man whose friends' eyes appeared to show his cat's features after brain surgery, and vice versa.
- Why it matters
- This study helps understand how the brain assembles facial features and how memories can become entangled with what we see.
#face perception#memory#brain surgery#visual processing#cortex journal
