Credit: NDSU Dr. Benjamin Balas
Christopher Tonsager
Real or fake? A study by researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and the Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience, found that when skin tone is negated, study participants had difficulty determining whether a face was real or artificial. Dr. Benjamin Balas, assistant professor of psychology, notes that it may take more than eyes to make a face look human. Study results show people combine information across many parts of the face to determine how alive it looks and the appearances of these regions may interact with each other.