Psychology & Psychiatry
Ability to recognise expression tied to listening and emotion
West Australian researchers have developed two new tests that examine a typical person's ability to recognise basic facial expressions.
Jan 6, 2014
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News tagged with facial recognition
Psychology & Psychiatry
Face lab psychologists develop average face of Doctor Who
Millions of Dr Who fans are set to be gripped as the latest incarnation of the famous Time Lord is unveiled on Christmas Day.
Dec 24, 2013
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Genetics
Study maps genetic markers of brain development in people with Williams syndrome
Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood ...
Nov 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Manipulative and empathetic people both adept at reading emotions
(Medical Xpress)—People shouldn't assume that someone who can easily read their feelings always has their best interests at heart.
Oct 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Seeing' faces through touch
Our sense of touch can contribute to our ability to perceive faces, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Sep 4, 2013
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Neuroscience
Difficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neurons
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces—a deficit linked to the impairments in social ...
Mar 18, 2013
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Autism spectrum disorders
Impaired coordination of brain activity in autism involves local, as well as long-range, signaling
A study based at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that the local functional connectivity of the brain – the extent to which the activity of within a small brain region ...
Jan 14, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Pokemon provides rare opening for IU study of face-recognition processes
(Medical Xpress)—At a Bloomington, Ind., toy store, kids ages 8 to 12 gather weekly to trade Pokemon cards and share their mutual absorption in the intrigue and adventure of Pokemon.
Dec 5, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research about facial recognition turns common wisdom on its head
(Medical Xpress) -- A team of researchers that includes a USC scientist has methodically demonstrated that a face's features or constituents – more than the face per se – are the key to recognizing a person.
Mar 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Just another pretty face: Professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia
For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.
Feb 1, 2012
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