What is the Thatcher Effect? Why do upside down faces confuse us?
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What is the Thatcher effect?
What is the Thatcher effect? It is a curious phenomenon associated with our ability to recognise faces. An upside down face which has been modified so that the eyes and mouth are the right way up looks normal when the face is inverted but very strange when the face is the right way up. Come with me as I explore this curious effect and try to answer the question: Why does the Thatcher effect work?
I used a number of sources for this video including this excellent website from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bang/article_tha...
Margaret Thatcher photo
Rob Bogaerts / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia pavement
Filip Maljković from Pancevo, Serbia, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia jets
Procsilas Moscas, CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Metal pareidolia
Thom Quine, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia traffic lights
Mbejger, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Cardboard box pareidolia
Bostwickenator at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Fence pareidolia
Fred Ressler, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Phone box
Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Rhesus monkey
Dinesh 317, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
I used a number of sources for this video including this excellent website from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bang/article_tha...
Margaret Thatcher photo
Rob Bogaerts / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia pavement
Filip Maljković from Pancevo, Serbia, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia jets
Procsilas Moscas, CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Metal pareidolia
Thom Quine, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Pareidolia traffic lights
Mbejger, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Cardboard box pareidolia
Bostwickenator at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Fence pareidolia
Fred Ressler, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
Phone box
Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Rhesus monkey
Dinesh 317, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
via Wikimedia Commons
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