How Sensitivity to Emotions Changes Across the Lifespan
Researchers report sensitivity to anger cues improve during adolescence, but decreases as we age. However, the ability to detect happy cues remains the same, regardless of age.... Read More...
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You Recognize Your Face Even When You Don’t ‘See’ It
A new study reveals we are consciously aware of and automatically attend to our own face, even when we are not aware of it.... Read More...
Catch Me If You Can: Disguises are Surprisingly Effective
Researchers report small, but deliberate changes in a person's facial appearance are effective in identity deception.... Read More...
Neurons in the Visual Cortex that Respond to Faces Identified
Researchers have identified neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different faces. ... Read More...
Man Versus Machine: Who Wins When It Comes to Facial Recognition?
Researchers answer the questions of whether artificial intelligence is better at facial recognization than humans. The study found both humans and deep learning algorithms perform with similar levels of accuracy when identifying faces. However, when AI technology is combined with human intelligence, the accuracy attainment levels shot up and better results were achieved than when two facial examiners worked together. ... Read More...
People Are Better at Remembering Names Rather Than Faces
The common belief that we are better at remembering faces over names may not be true. Researchers report we are actually better at remembering a person's name than we are faces.... Read More...
Brain Learns to Recognize Familiar Faces Regardless of Where They Are in Visual Field
Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactions tune visual neurons in the face processing network to enable consistent and rapid rapid recognition of familiar faces.... Read More...
Never Forget a Face? People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces
A new study reveals that, on average, we are able to recognize 5,000 different faces. ... Read More...
Learning to See Friendly Faces in Different Places
Researchers report on how the brain learns to recognize an individual face, regardless of where it appears in different visual locations.... Read More...
Inability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition Problems
Researchers report developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, occurs as the results of neurobiological problems that broadly affect visual recognition. ... Read More...
AI Researchers Design ‘Privacy Filter’ For Your Photos
Using an AI technique called adversarial training, researchers have developed a new algorithm that dynamically disrupts facial recognition systems, which may help to maintain privacy.... Read More...
Face Recognition Experts Perform Better with AI as Partners
A new study reports facial recognition experts perform better with deep convolutional neural networks assisting them in their jobs rather than other humans.... Read More...