BUILD - A-FACE Scientists showed
monkeys pictures of faces (top row) while measuring the activity of a monkey's brain cells.
Not exact matches
Consider the curious display in d. Each eye's
picture is a composite
of a
monkey's
face and foliage.
Some
of the study's subjects viewed photos
of the transformation
of the
monkeys»
faces as a human or primate would see them while others saw
pictures as a color - blind person would and others as a camera would.
In the early 2000s, when Tsao was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, she and electrophysiologist Winrich Freiwald showed that neurons in a
monkey's
face patches would fire electrical signals every time the animal saw
pictures of a
face.
If a
monkey sees a
picture of another
monkey making a
face — an open - mouthed threat, for example, or a submissive lip smack — a network
of neurons becomes active in its brain.
So although she had a nice time and wasn't injured or anything, all I really did was potentially ruin her designer boots and lovely dress, malnourish her, ply her with sugar and then not police her Google search
of «
monkey pictures» (which, let's
face it, could have ended in tears).