Psychology
Why upside-down faces hide shocking distortions
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The Thatcher effect is a glitch where your brain completely fails to notice grotesque changes to a face if the image is upside down. Because our facial recognition algorithms strictly process right-side-up features, flipping the image turns off the alarm system. You can invert someone's eyes and mouth, and your brain will shrug and say 'looks fine to me' until you rotate it.
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