Four judges buzzed off a painter they couldn't see — thanks to a brain blind spot
aakashgupta · x · 2026-11-15
On a 2016 Swiss talent show, four judges buzzed painter Corinne Sutter off the stage because they couldn't tell what she was painting — but anyone would have failed: the human brain has a built-in blind spot.
The thread ties together classic neuroscience: psychologist Robert Yin's MIT memory experiments showed people handled upside-down houses fine but collapsed on upside-down faces. Nancy Kanwisher's lab later pinpointed why — the fusiform face area acts as a face detector, reading the whole eyes-over-nose-over-mouth layout in one shot, and it fails when the layout is flipped.
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