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Face recognition

Eye Contact is Overrated

18 April 2022 by Joshua Davidson

When we look at an object, light reflects off that surface, strikes our eyes, goes through our lens, triggers photo-receptors on our retinas, triggers an ion cascade through nerve fibres to our brain, branches through our limbic early warning system and up through to our occipital region to paint an hallucination of the object within … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags ASD, autism, Eye contact, Face recognition, mental health

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