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·February 26, 2019·5 min read

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.

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·February 18, 2019·3 min read

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.

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·January 21, 2019·3 min read

Neurons in the Visual Cortex that Respond to Faces Identified

Researchers have identified neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different faces.

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·December 3, 2018·5 min read

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.

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·November 14, 2018·4 min read

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.

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·November 9, 2018·4 min read

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.

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·October 10, 2018·3 min read

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.

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·October 1, 2018·3 min read

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.

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·June 25, 2018·5 min read

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.

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·June 3, 2018·2 min read

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.

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·May 29, 2018·5 min read

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.

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·May 11, 2018·4 min read

Do We Subconsciously Judge Face Likeness?

A new study sheds light on the mechanisms behind how humans recognize and distinguish between two types of visual information. The study provides insight into the level of visual processing where pareidolia, the human ability to see faces in inanimate objects, occurs.