Contents:
- Medical Video: Muslim Explains Why She Wears the Veil
- Is it true that a woman wearing a hijab becomes more difficult to recognize when she is togetherhijabers others?
- The brain works in building facial perceptions
- Facial recognition perceptions between one person and another can be different
Medical Video: Muslim Explains Why She Wears the Veil
Berhijab is one way for women to worship while demonstrating the uniqueness of their identity. Uniquely, in the midst of the diversity of colorful and trendy hijab models, not a few people around who sometimes like it difficult to distinguish between one woman with hijab and the other. Do you also feel that way? Maybe you have ever called a friend who had a hijab when he was sick in a public place, uh,apparently not someone you know. Relax, you are not alone.
Why yes, most women wearing hijab can look similar, but not brothers - especially twins?
Is it true that a woman wearing a hijab becomes more difficult to recognize when she is togetherhijabers others?
A study published by PLoS one conducted 3 separate experiments on public perceptions of the appearance of hijab women. The research participants were shown three kinds of photo sets: (1) A woman with a normal appearance, not wearing a hijab, (2) a B woman who was not wearing a hijab, and (3) A and B women who both wore hijabs.All of these photo sets are shown to participants separately and alternately.
The first test displays photos of women A and B who are both without hijab. At this stage, they can quickly distinguish between women A and B based on the characteristics of each face. At other times, participants were shown photos of women A and B who were wearing a hijab. Participants showed a slower recognition reflex than during the first test.
For the final test, the research team presented all versions of the photos of these two women - both of them had hair, both had headscarves, and one was wearing a hijab while the others were not. Participants were asked to designate women A and B, and assess how similar these two women were to each other. As a result, the group of participants consisting of various ethnic groups found it difficult to distinguish between women A and B based on the facial features displayed. After undergoing a series of tests, they considered the two women to look similar and difficult to recognize.
This all has to do with how the brain recognizes faces and builds your perception of others. How you interact with others is more or less influenced by the work of the brain to recognize and distinguish one face from the thousands of faces that you encounter throughout life. When trying to recognize someone, the brain will work like a personscanner that scans the person's face and changes every aspect of his face into a code.
The brain works in building facial perceptions
The way you recognize other people's faces may begin in a certain order: eyes, mouth, nose. The size and placement of the person's eyes, for example, will determine how you see the rest of his face. The process of introducing random facial features makes the brain focus on just one feature rather than adjusting the perception of the rest of the face.
This brain recognition system is an effective way for you to distinguish one face from another. Put simply like this: once you get the name "Sari", for example, you can immediately tell which Sari is your high school friend and which Sari is your neighbor, because the high school friend has a snub nose while your neighbor has slanted eyes. The reason is, your pug nose nose high school friend is the most distinctive facial features, which you recognize and remember for the first time. Likewise with the narrow eyes of Sari, your neighbor's house.
Well, in addition to the internal characteristics of the face (eyes, nose, mouth), researchers found that it turns out that hair as an external feature also plays an important role in determining whether a person can be easily recognized. They found that once the appearance of a person's face changes, with a hijab for example, the brain will scan internal and external features of the face as a whole picture and not separate components.
Here's how: imagine the two "Sari" your friends are now wearing hijab. Your brain, which was able to distinguish the two Sari based on their most distinctive facial features, now has a different perception of their new appearance. Instead of focusing face recognition at only one focus point, the brain scans the appearance of these two veiled Sari as a whole.
That is why most people sometimes like to find it difficult to distinguish between a woman wearing a hijab and another, even though their hijab colors and models are different. Especially when in a public place, where the brain does not have time to really scan and distinguish the facial characteristics of each woman wearing hijab, which you might not even know before.
What does this mean? Is it true that all hijab women will look similar to "outsiders"? Not necessarily so, you know!
Facial recognition perceptions between one person and another can be different
As explained above, the brain recognizes faces in a certain order. For example, you will try to memorize someone's face starting from the eyes, nose, then mouth. But other people may recognize a face in a different way, for example starting from the nose, mouth, eyes.
The two brains of the owners of these different bodies get the same signal, but how each of these processes random signals can be different. It could be that you recognize the A from the shape of his eyes first, while your side friends can better recognize the A from the shape of his mouth.
This shows that the perception of your face in the eyes of one person is not necessarily the same as the views of others on your face. So if you think all women wearing hijabs appear to be similar, not necessarily others will share the same opinion. This is becausegenerally hijab or hijab is not the main factor in how the brain evaluates facial similarity, but rather from the characteristics of the face itself.
