When the human brain sees an emoji face, it does the stupidest thing it could possibly do in that moment: it interprets it as a real human face. It’s not, though. It’s a silly, exaggerated cartoon interpretation of a human expression. And yet, according to research published in Psychophysiology , there is a measurable split-second bit of stupidity where the human brain doesn’t notice, or maybe doesn’t care, that it’s not a real face. Videos by VICE Unfortunately, the study doesn’t clarify whether this applies only to faces or if something like the smiling poop emoji briefly registers as a living, breathing poop man. Maybe we’ll find out more about that in the future. Anyway, researchers at Bournemouth University found that the brain processes emoji expressions and real human faces in similar ways, especially in the first fractions of a second.…