When You Look at a Face, You Look Nose First (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

When You Look at a Face, You Look Nose First

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When asked to determine if the face that test subjects were looking at was one that they had just seen a few minutes prior, test subjects first "fixed" their eyes near the center of the nose, and when they moved their eyes to the second location on the face, it too was usually near the center of the nose, according to research from computer scientists at UC San Diego published in the journal Psychological Science in October 2008.

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Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

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