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The death of margaret hilda thatcher leaves me cold to be honest.

Margaret thatcher upside down. In the case of adeles example the two images are identical. Thatcher was a disaster for british society culture and morals. In fact what you see is that the mouth and eyes are upside down.

But once the image is arighted the upside down eyes and mouth seem completely out of place on an otherwise recognizable face. The thatcher effect is characterized by an upside down face looking quite normal and then when viewed upside down looks like some frankensteined version of an undead wow character. The thatcher effect is a phenomenon where its hard to identify localized changes in the features of an upside down face while the same changes are immediately obvious in the upright position.

It is named after the late british prime minister margaret thatcher on whose photograph the effect was first demonstrated. Margaret thatcher in full margaret hilda thatcher baroness thatcher of kesteven nee margaret hilda roberts born october 13 1925 grantham lincolnshire englanddied april 8 2013 london british conservative party politician and prime minister 197990 europes first woman prime minister. Heres whats going on.

The only british prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and. The thatcher effect or thatcher illusion or eyesmouth wrongway is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. Thats the thatcher effect.

Therefore seeing the eyes and mouth right side up looks actually more familiar. The eyes and mouths of the subjects in the photos have been flipped upside down. It would have been nice to have some warning dont you think.

So we expect the top of objects to be at the top of our visual field. When seening a face upside down the brain has a harder time recognizing the face as a whole and sees it rather as a sum of its parts. The dual processing theory of object perception and recognition.

Once its right side up the way your brain is used it it becomes quite obvious that something is wrong. The effect was originally created in 1980 by peter thompson professor of psychology at the university of york. Not that there isnt a deep burning hatred of everything that she stood for but in the sense that deep down she was merely the talking head of a much deeper evil cooked up by the likes of keith joseph in the 1970s.

Because our brains arent as used to recognizing facial features when theyre inverted we perceive the upside down photos as being totally normal. The fact that the eyes and the mouth are both in unexpected orientations when the picture is upside down makes it difficult for us to notice the distortion in thatcherized faces. The illusion is named after margaret thatcher former british prime minister because her photo that was used to famously illustrate the illusion.

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