Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Three-layered masks most effective against large respiratory droplets

If you are going to buy a face mask to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, make sure it's a three-layered mask. You might have already heard this recommendation, but researchers have now found an additional reason ...

Neuroscience

Dog and human brains process faces differently

Researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, discovered striking similarities and differences in how dog and human brains process visual information about others. The study was published ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

What guides our attention to faces in videos changes with age

When they're watching videos, how do infants, children, and adults differ in how they view faces? A University of California, Riverside, study has explored this question and found that with age the role of "face centering" ...

Neuroscience

Scientists discover a new class of memory cells in the brain

Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we see a very familiar face, like that of our grandmothers. But the proposed "grandmother ...

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