Inversion Goggles

[Gord.T]

A biomotion experiment. I'm not sure how interesting you'll find it but...

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[ryan brown]

I took a psych class back in college in which we learned about a "scientist" who did this exact same thing way back in the... 40's? 50's? 30's? Don't remember, but I do remember that after a certain amount of time (I believe it was somewhere around 2 weeks), he said his brain compensated and flipped the image for him. I guess there was no way for him to prove it, so who knows... After watching this, it doesn't seem like the brain would flip the image. Seems more like it just compensates and reprograms your motor skills to adapt to the new/different perspective. Interesting either way.

 

[Gord.T]

Yeah, and what else was interesting was while everything could eventually be adapted to, inverted facial recognition couldn't. As Prof. Niko Troje sais, that part appears to be hard wired into the brain.

Another reason I found that interesting is while I'm trying to learn how to draw portraits, some of the techniques I've come across involve turning a source picture upside down so that your brain doesn't go into auto-recognize mode while trying to draw it. It's all cool.

 

[Peter Reynolds]

A little off topic, but during the Second World War people that forged documents (passports, etc.) copied signatures upside down. Apparently, like portraits, it's easier to make an accurate copy as your brain doesn't recognize it as a signature, just a bunch of lines.

Thanks for the post. Very cool indeed.