The ability to recognize faces is important in many different real life contexts and fundamental to our social relationships and interactions. It allows us to identify people we care about, and respond appropriately to them. ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Why your brain then responds emotionally to faces in everyday objects.
Aug 27, 2021
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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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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 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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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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People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces looking sideways more memorable researchers have found.
Jun 6, 2017
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As part of a cooperation with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin and the University of Bamberg, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been studying a probably congenital dysfunction that ...
Dec 4, 2015
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