Publications by authors named "M B E Livingstone"
It has been suggested that caricaturing enhances esthetic appeal, by making an image more strongly stimulate those areas of the brain encoding the subject's distinctive features than does the subject itself. However, some experimental work suggests that people prefer faces with proportions closer to average, or closer to a particular template. It might be that familiarity with the face is important if caricaturing is to increase the esthetic appeal of a likeness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHumans perceive illusory faces in everyday objects with a face-like configuration, an illusion known as face pareidolia. Face-selective regions in humans and monkeys, believed to underlie face perception, have been shown to respond to face pareidolia images. Here, we investigated whether pareidolia selectivity in macaque inferotemporal cortex is explained by the face-like configuration that drives the human perception of illusory faces.
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- Ovine enzootic abortion is a highly infectious disease causing fetal death in small ruminants, but it can be managed with vaccines, which need better safety for both sheep and humans.
- A new prototype vaccine has been created that outperforms existing commercial vaccines in safety and efficacy when given in two doses three weeks apart.
- The recent study shows that this vaccine remains effective even with a single dose or a reduced antigen amount, indicating potential for commercial use if the ideal dosage is determined.