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People are Good at Figuring Out Faces at Low Resolution (6 x 7 Pixels).

By Alex in Everything Else on Mar 6, 2007 at 11:07 pm


A little experiment by Cognitive Daily showed that people are amazingly good at identifying faces from other images at the resolution of only 6 by 7 pixels!

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  1. dodgyd55
    Mar 7th, 2007 at 8:03 am

    it looks like phill collins or napoleon

  2. Ant
    Mar 7th, 2007 at 9:06 am

    Bill Murray to me.

  3. Anita
    Mar 7th, 2007 at 10:18 am

    I was pretty surprised that some people could get Sean Connery. I thought Napoleon was pretty easy though. Amazing how good the human brain is at recognizing objects with so little information.

  4. Justin
    Mar 7th, 2007 at 11:15 am

    yeah I saw Napolean too. I guess maybe you have to be familiar with the portrait though...

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