Brad Duchaine

That's exactly right.

Yeah.

So the face network is pretty liberal in what it'll allow into the system.

So as long as there's some minimal configuration of stimuli that indicate that something's a face, what will turn on that network?

Sure.

So it's prosopometamorphopsia.

Prosopo meaning face and then metamorphopsia meaning distortion.

And so it's face distortions is what we're talking about.

And we always call it PMO because prosopometamorphopsia is such a mouthful.

Sure.

I mean, we could first we could lead off talking about the guy who was said to have demon face syndrome.

So this is a gentleman that we work with.

who lives in the US.

And every single face that he sees in daily life, the features are stretched back.

So the mouth is pulled back, the nose, the eyes, even the ears.

He also has three grooves in the cheek, two grooves in the forehead, and then a kind of subtle groove between the mouth and the chin.

And this is what he sees on every single face that he encounters in daily life, whether it's, say, a frontal view of the face.

If somebody turns their face in profile, he's still seeing those same distortions.

Well, so VS used to see faces.

So we tend to use initials when we describe the people we work with.