An Exercise in Face RecognitionFaces will be presented to you first upsidedown and then right side up. Try to keeptrack of the number you correctly identifyin the upside down position and then thenumber you correctly identify in the rightside up position.

Oprah Winfrey

Simon Cowell

Angelina Jolie

Johnny Depp

Michelle Obama

Brian Williams

Barbara Walters

Oops, just wanted to see if you are payingattention!!!

Joe Biden

Paul Ryan

Meryl Streep

Albert Einstein

Hillary Clinton

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III

Nicole Kidman

Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal

Princess Kate

Justin Timberlake

Sandra Bullock

William Shatner

Miley Cyrus

Harrison Ford

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Michael Jordan

Jennifer Lopez

Justin Bieber

Taylor Swift

Sean Connery

Recognition of upside down faces is more difficultthan you thought, isn’t it? Don’t be concerned butadd the number of correct identifications forupside down and right side up. According tothe Internet site, http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/,the average score on their similar online test is 87%.For this test with 26 questions, 87% is 22.6.People with a condition called prosopagnosia havedifficulty recognizing faces and in extreme form,cannot recognize any faces.

For some additional interesting images,please continue to observe.

Pictured here are__________ and __________

Clinton and ClintonWith 2 different hair styles.

Are these two faces the same?

Frog?

Or Horse?

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Is this a person?

Uh, Oh! Not everything is as it appears. Sometimesthe brain does not interpret information correctly.In this and in many other cases, interpretationdepends on perspective.