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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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·May 24, 2021·3 min read

The Brain Learns Faces Fastest In Person

In-person interactions strengthen neural signals related to facial recognition.

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·April 19, 2021·3 min read

Mirror, Mirror…Viewing Your Own Face, Even Subconsciously, Is Rewarding

Viewing a subliminal image of their own faces, participants showed an increase in activity in the dopamine reward pathway in the brain. Findings shed new light on the underlying neural processes of self facial recognition.

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·April 18, 2021·4 min read

AI Is Increasingly Being Used to Identify Emotions, Here’s What’s at Stake

Emotional recognition technology is rapidly growing into a multi-billion dollar industry. Researchers investigate the limitations of new AI technology, and some of the biases within the algorithms, when it comes to identifying human emotions efficiently.

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·February 20, 2021·5 min read

Do You Look Like Your Name?

Study reveals the stereotype that a given society has of a first name can influence the way people look.

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·December 23, 2020·3 min read

Covering Faces Around Kids Won’t Mask Emotions

Even when a person's face is covered by a surgical mask, children can ascertain their emotions based on other facial cues.

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·December 21, 2020·4 min read

Do I Know You? Researchers Evaluate How Masks Disrupt Facial Perception

It may be harder to recognize familiar faces when they wear a surgical mask to protect against COVID-19, a new study reports. Researchers noted a 15% drop in the ability for people to recognize faces when they were masked.