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Researchers have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on how the autistic brain processes faces. Some hallmark characteristics of autism include tendencies to avoid looking at others' faces and to make less eye ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Facial recognition is now a fixture of modern life, powering everything from national border security to the simple convenience of unlocking a smartphone. However, these advancements bring significant risks to privacy, equity ...
Jul 16, 2026
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For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects—represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Cardiff Babylab at the Cardiff University Center for Human Developmental Science (CUCHDS) used baby-worn headcams and AI face detection to investigate the everyday viewing of faces during playtime across the first years of ...
Jan 27, 2026
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When Australia enacted a national law last week banning social media use for children under 16, it became one of the first democracies to attempt such a sweeping intervention. The policy has drawn global attention not only ...
Jan 27, 2026
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Humans have a remarkable ability to recognize faces despite variations in appearance. Regardless of aging, changes in weight or facial hair, or even cosmetic surgery, we can usually—but not always—identify individuals based ...
Dec 8, 2025
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When we first meet another person, we typically form an initial impression of them based on their facial features and appearance. These first impressions of others could potentially influence our subsequent cognitive processes, ...
Is the brain of animals and humans naturally wired to recognize faces? Is there an innate biological mechanism that explains this ability? Questions like these have been fueling a debate that involves, on the opposite side, ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, but could also have implications ...
Jul 2, 2024
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Their popularity makes celebrities easy to spot. Strangers, however, can also get mistaken for celebrities, resulting in cases of false "celebrity sightings." In attempting to explain the contradiction, a University of California, ...
Mar 8, 2023
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