Big Picture Science - Skeptic Check: About Face Face it – humans
are pattern-seeking animals. We identify eyes, nose and mouth
where there are none. Martian rock takes on a visage and the
silhouette of Elvis appears in our burrito. Discover the roots
of our face-tracking tendency – pareidolia – and why it
sometimes leads us astray. Plus, why some brains can’t recognize
faces at all … how computer programs exhibit their own
pareidolia … and why it’s so difficult to replicate human vision
in a machine - Phil Plait – Astronomer, Skeptic, and author of
Slate Magazine’s blog Bad Astronomy - Josef Parvisi – Associate
professor, Stanford University, and clinical neurologist and
epilepsy specialist at Stanford Medical Center - Nancy Kanwisher
– Cognitive neuroscientist, at the McGovern Institute for Brain
Research at MIT - Greg Borenstein – Artist, creative
technologist who teaches at New York University - Pietro Perona
– Professor of electrical engineering, computation and neural
systems, California Institute of Tec