Masks protect people from contracting the coronavirus, but could have a negative side effect. In a recent Perspective paper, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences suggest that the ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Why your brain then responds emotionally to faces in everyday objects.
Aug 27, 2021
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But the study also shows for the first time that performance may be improved by using super recognisers—people who are very skilled at recognizing faces. It also reveals that masks do make recognizing someone's emotions ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Face-sensitive neurons in humans employ distinct activity patterns to encode individual faces; those patterns reactivate when imagining the face, according to research recently published in JNeurosci.
Jan 11, 2021
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The identification of people wearing masks has often presented a unique challenge during the pandemic. A new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and York University in Canada reveals ...
Dec 21, 2020
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Scientists have further decoded how mammalian brains perceive odors and distinguish one smell from thousands of others.
Jun 18, 2020
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Hawaii Gov. David Ige extended the state's mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers on Wednesday in a bid to keep coronavirus cases in the islands low.
Jun 11, 2020
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Object recognition and facial recognition may seem like similar abilities, but new research finds that these behaviors are on the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to physical signatures in the brain.
Apr 14, 2020
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Poland on Friday launched a smartphone app allowing people under a mandatory 14-day quarantine for coronavirus to send selfies to let authorities know they are indeed staying home.
Mar 20, 2020
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Though identifying data typically are removed from medical image files before they are shared for research, a Mayo Clinic study finds that this may not be enough to protect patient privacy.
Oct 24, 2019
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