FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 17, 2022·4 min readMask-Wearing Can Make It More Difficult to Recognize Masked and Unmasked Faces of OthersWhen you are wearing a face mask, it may be more difficult for you to recognize people, even if they are not wearing masks.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 26, 2022·3 min readAI Worse at Recognizing Images Than HumansMost AI models are unable to represent features of human vision, making them worse at recognizing images.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·August 31, 2022·6 min readGood Face Recognizers Can Learn Faces From FragmentsPeople who are exceptionally good at recognizing faces, or super-recognizers, divide areas of the face into parts before storing them as a composite image in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience·July 19, 2022·6 min readStudy Finds Widespread False Memories of Logos and Characters, Including Mr. Monopoly and PikachuWhen it comes to famous logos and characters, people often experience a Visual Mandela Effect, or consistent, confident, and widespread false memories of such famous icons.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·May 31, 2022·4 min readInvestigating Links Between Facial Recognition and Alzheimer’s DiseaseStudy evaluates whether problems in facial processing and recognition in Alzheimer's disease are a result of memory impairment or visual processing deficits.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·June 22, 2019·5 min readYour brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a conceptA new deep learning algorithm is able to detect how well a STEM student understands a concept based on their brain activity.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 21, 2019·6 min readSpotting objects amid clutterResearchers have developed a new algorithm that enables robots to identify objects hidden in 3D data. The new system may help with improving robotic vehicles and autonomous robots.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 9, 2018·4 min readBrain Learns to Recognize Familiar Faces Regardless of Where They Are in Visual FieldResearchers 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
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 25, 2018·5 min readInability to Recognize Faces Linked to Broader Visual Recognition ProblemsResearchers report developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, occurs as the results of neurobiological problems that broadly affect visual recognition.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·November 8, 2017·5 min readVisual Intelligence Not the Same as IQA new study reveals differences in a person's visual ability to recognize objects is not associated with their general intelligence.Read More
FeaturedNeurology·October 18, 2017·2 min read‘Cats-And-Dogs’ Test to Predict Dementia Among Parkinson’s PatientsA test that uses images of cats and dogs may prove to be a quick and effective method of predicting which patients in early stages of Parkinson's disease will develop dementia.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·September 26, 2017·5 min readIn Plain Sight: Study Compares Performance of Humans Versus Neural Networks in Visual SearchesResearchers report humans often miss objects in plain sight, especially if the size is inconsistent with the rest of the scene.Read More
