For recognising a face, eyebrows beat eyes

Eyes get the poetry, but a study reported this week finds that eyebrows matter more than eyes for recognising a face. The summary available gives no sample size or method, so treat it as a headline result rather than settled science. It is still a neat reminder of how little we know about what our brains actually use. Perhaps the reason a disguise so often works is that people change the wrong feature. Anyone who has barely recognised a friend after a brow trim may already suspect as much.