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AutoBahned
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greater Metropolitan Nimrod, Orygun
Posts: 55,993
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The Front of Car Looks like a Face
It has often been noted that the front ends of many car look like faces, and IIRC someone at P AG (or back in the days of P KG) said the round headlights were a important part of the look of the Porsche "face"
Well, I just happened upon this:
People use the same brain module (a sub-component in the brain) to recognize cars and trucks that we use to recognize human faces. This was based on a functional MRI study.
Gauthier, Gore, Anderson. 2000. Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition. Nature Neuroscience 3(2): 191-97.
I wonder if designers tend to make the fronts of cars look like faces, and if the same brain module is involved during the design phase...
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