Neuroscience
'You all look alike to me' is hard-wired in us, research finds
You often hear it framed in a comic sense, though it's a form of stereotyping, and even prejudice. "You all look alike to me."
Jul 8, 2019
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News tagged with face perception
Neuroscience
Widespread brain connections enable face recognition
Remembering a familiar face engages a wider network of brain regions than previously thought, according to a study of healthy men and women published in JNeurosci.
Apr 29, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Academic study finds women wearing heavy makeup less likely to be perceived as leaders
Women wearing heavy makeup are less likely to be thought of as good leaders, new research from Abertay University has found.
Mar 9, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children with restored vision demonstrate acquired face perception ability
(Medical Xpress)—The milestones of infant brain development are difficult to study. So researchers often seek out subjects with disabilities that prevented them from reaching those developmental stages in infancy. One early ...
Neuroscience
How the electrical activity of the brain gives rise to the rich world of perception
The human brain is constantly abuzz with electrical activity as brain cells, called neurons, respond to sensory input and give rise to the world we perceive. Six particular regions of the brain, called face patches, contain ...
Mar 30, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Changing faces: We can look more trustworthy, but not more competent, research finds
We can alter our facial features in ways that make us look more trustworthy, but don't have the same ability to appear more competent, a team of New York University psychology researchers has found.
Jun 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
Development of face perception in Japanese children
Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but studies of face perception in ...
May 21, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Faces are more likely to seem alive when we want to feel connected
Feeling socially disconnected may lead us to lower our threshold for determining that another being is animate or alive, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Sep 8, 2014
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists discover adaptation mechanisms of the brain when perceiving letters of the alphabet
The headlights – two eyes, the radiator cowling – a smiling mouth: This is how our brain sometimes creates a face out of a car front. The same happens with other objects: in house facades, trees or stones – a "human ...
May 21, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study shows face matching for passports and IDs incredibly fallible
New research finds face matching, as when customs agents check passports, to be incredibly fallible, with error rates between 10 and 20 percent under ideal, laboratory-induced conditions, and much worse in more realistic ...
Mar 11, 2014
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