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"DALLAS - A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free -- if only he would admit he was a sex offender. But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in a 1979 rape and robbery, in the process serving more time for a crime he didn't commit than any other Texas inmate exonerated by DNA evidence."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_re_us/us_dna_exoneration_texas

What do we know about sensation & perception that might help us reduce the number of misidentifications that occur?

(Thanks to Ali for sending the link)

 

What does this tell us about how our perceptual system binds sounds, movement, and objects together to create this unusual experience?

 

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Notice anything wrong with this picture?

"Maybe you're familiar with the ManBabies craze sweeping the internets -- the concept: babies' heads and their dads' heads are seamlessly switched using photoshop with weird and arresting results. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/huffpost-manbabies-photos_n_459058.html

Also see: http://manbabies.com/

What does your text say about face recognition? Based on that how would you describe what is going on here preceptually? What does your text say about size constancy?  What effect do the head swap have on size perception? 

When Christian Jahn, a 37-year-old graduate student, was 13, he wouldn't leave the house without wearing a heavy Arctic jacket. In Southern California, that was enough to set him apart. But Christian was obsessed with what he deemed an even more troubling physical anomaly: He was terrified of his own face.

Over the next 15 years, Jahn almost flunked out of college, then dropped out of law school - all because of a fixation on physical flaws. Then he caught an episode of "Oprah" about obsessive compulsive disorder. A little more online research yielded another related illness: body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Suddenly, Jahn's mysterious and life-altering condition had a name.

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New Research May Help Those Afraid of Own Looks