- The Thatcher Effect is named after the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
- Test shows how the brain tricks the eye into not ‘seeing’ inverted facial features
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A mind-blowing image of Adele has gone viral after baffled social media users with the fascination phenomenon known as the ‘Thatcher Effect’.
The Thatcher effect is named after the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose image was first used for the trick when it was created in 1980 by psychology professor Peter Thompson of York University.
The mind-blowing visual test shows how the brain tricks the eye into not “seeing” inverted facial features in upside-down images, but is able to recognize the error when the images are in the correct position.
The image of Adele in question has left people amazed because although the star’s face is upside down, it takes a while to realize that not everything is as it seems.
In fact, his eyes and mouth were in the correct position even though it didn’t look bad.
But if you flip the image, it will immediately become clear that the eyes and mouth are now upside down.
London-based clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith previously surprised TikTok users when she shared a short video on the social media platform asking users to look at a selection of photos that had been doctored to achieve the effect. , including former US President Barack Obama and rapper. Kanye West.
In the video, Dr Julie explains: “Look at these photos, you’re about to experience something called the Thatcher effect.”
A mind-blowing image of Adele has gone viral after baffled social media users with the fascination phenomenon known as the ‘Thatcher Effect’.


The ‘Thatcher Effect’ which highlights a flaw in the way our brain works because we cannot process localized changes in the features of an upside-down (left) face, but the same changes are immediately obvious in the upright (right) position.
He went on to show several images of celebrities, but the photos, however, are upside down.
‘Do you notice anything strange?’ she asked.
Incredibly, even though the photographs are upside down, the human brain recognizes people and their facial expressions.
She told users: “Now turn your phone face down and look again.”
The video quickly went viral, racking up millions of views and likes, as well as more than 68,000 comments.
The Thatcher effect, also known as the Thatcher or Eyesmouth-Wrongway illusion, is a phenomenon in which it becomes more difficult to detect changes in local features on an upside-down face, even though identical changes are obvious on an upright face.
It was previously believed that the illusion only worked on the former prime minister’s face.
However, it has since been discovered that the effect can be performed on many more faces.

It is named after the former British Prime Minister whose image was first used for the stunt in 1980 by Psychology Professor Peter Thompson of the University of York.


London-based clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith previously shared a video featuring a selection of photographs that had been doctored to achieve the effect, including that of former US president Barack Obama.


In the example above, Kanye West’s face has been altered and his eyes and mouth remain the correct shape (left). While the rarities are appropriately highlighted on the right
The effect is illustrated with two photographs that were originally identical, but inverted.
The second image is modified so that the eyes and mouth are vertically inverted, although the changes are not immediately obvious until the image is viewed in normal orientation.
This is thought to be due to specific psychological cognitive modules involved in facial perception, which are especially adapted to upright faces.
The faces look unique even though they are very similar.
It has been hypothesized that we develop specific processes to differentiate between faces that depend on both the configuration (the structural relationship between individual features of the face) and the details of individual facial features, such as the eyes, nose, and mouth. .