The ability to recognize faces varies greatly, but individuals with autism spectrum disorders can especially struggle, having huge implications for social interaction. Penn State researchers, for the first time, recently ...
Oct 28, 2020
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Using "sub-millimeter" brain implants, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), have been able to determine which parts of the brain are linked to facial and scene recognition.
Jun 4, 2020
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Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others. "Super-recognizers" can accurately identify faces even when they have only seen them briefly ...
Sep 10, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of California and Stanford University has found that the tendency to see people from different racial groups as interchangeable has a neuronal basis. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
A Dartmouth study finds that recognition of faces varies by where they appear in the visual field and this variability is reduced by learning familiar faces through social interactions. These biases are stable and idiosyncratic. ...
Nov 8, 2018
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People often say that they never forget a face, but for some people, this claim might actually be true. So-called super recognisers are said to possess exceptional face recognition abilities, often remembering the faces of ...
Oct 18, 2018
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For the first time scientists have been able to put a figure on how many faces people actually know- a staggering 5,000 on average.
Oct 10, 2018
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Imagine that you're supposed to meet colleagues for dinner, only you can't remember what their faces look like. For some, this is a reality, as people with face blindness or developmental prosopagnosia (DP) have severe difficulties ...
Jun 25, 2018
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After a series of bank robberies that took place in the US in 2014, police arrested Steve Talley. He was beaten during the arrest and held in maximum security detention for almost two months. His estranged ex-wife identified ...
Jun 5, 2018
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Two heads are better than one—so goes the common adage. But are two heads collaborating really more effective at making decisions than two working independently?
May 21, 2018
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