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·August 2, 2022·4 min read

Research on Recognizing Facial Emotion Expressions Could Change Our Understanding of Autism

Autism-associated social difficulties may reflect differences that only become apparent in high-pressure scenarios and certain social interactions. The findings challenge the belief that those with ASD can't adequately read facial emotional expressions.

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·July 31, 2022·5 min read

Why People Struggle to Recognize the Faces of People From Different Racial Backgrounds

Many people report having a difficult time recognizing faces from visually distinct different backgrounds than their own. A new brain stimulation study found the "other race effect" is a result of lacking of cognitive visual expertise, and not social bias.

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·July 18, 2022·3 min read

People Can Recognize the Emotions of Other People in Face Masks

When the whole body is visible, people can identify the emotions and traits of other people wearing face masks.

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·May 31, 2022·4 min read

Investigating Links Between Facial Recognition and Alzheimer’s Disease

Study evaluates whether problems in facial processing and recognition in Alzheimer's disease are a result of memory impairment or visual processing deficits.

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·February 7, 2022·4 min read

Who Is That? Kids Find It More Difficult Than Adults to Recognize Faces Behind Masks

Findings suggest children's facial perception abilities are not only profoundly impaired when people wear facemasks, but the level of impairment is greater than in adults.

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·December 19, 2021·5 min read

The Six-Minute Training Hack That Can Improve Face Recognition Skills

Rather than trying to remember a face in its entirety, researchers say focus on the ears and specific facial markings like freckles, moles, or scars, to help build facial recognition skills.

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·November 20, 2021·4 min read

Specific Facial Features Can Help Distinguish Children From Adults

Researchers describe how specific facial features distinguish a child's face from an adult's face. The findings may help new technologies to quickly determine if children are depicted in indecent images.

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·November 15, 2021·6 min read

A Key Brain Region Responds to Faces Similarly in Infants and Adults

The fusiform face area, an area of the visual cortex responsible for facial processing, develops much earlier than previously believed.

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·November 1, 2021·4 min read

Recognizing Familiar Faces Relies on a Neural Code Shared Across Brains

Researchers report that within the visual processing areas, information about a personally familiar or visually familiar face is shared across the brains of those with the same friends or acquaintances. Additionally, shared information about personally familiar faces extends to areas of the brain implicated in social processing, suggesting there is shared social information across the brain.

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·September 1, 2021·4 min read

People Look Alike if We Think They Have Similar Personalities

Knowledge of an individual's personality can influence the perception of a face's identity and bias it toward unrelated people or identities, researchers report.

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·August 21, 2021·4 min read

Heavy Drinking May Impair Men’s Ability to Recognize Facial Emotions

Men who are intoxicated with alcohol have impairments when it comes to correctly assessing emotional facial cues in others. Researchers speculate the findings may explain why alcohol use is often associated with harmful interpersonal and social interactions, such as aggression and domestic violence.

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·July 8, 2021·5 min read

There’s a ‘Man in the Moon’: Why Our Brains See Human Faces Everywhere

Face pareidolia, a phenomenon where the brain is tricked into seeing human faces in inanimate objects, may occur as a result of the brain processing the perceived facial expression in the same sequential way it perceives a human face.

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