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·October 18, 2017·2 min read

‘Cats-And-Dogs’ Test to Predict Dementia Among Parkinson’s Patients

A 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.

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·September 26, 2022·3 min read

AI Worse at Recognizing Images Than Humans

Most AI models are unable to represent features of human vision, making them worse at recognizing images.

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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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·June 9, 2017·4 min read

Developing Fetuses React to Face Like Shapes From the Womb

Researchers report fetuses at 34 week gestation will turn their heads and pay more attention to face like shapes.

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·June 10, 2016·4 min read

Fish Can Recognize Human Faces

A new study reports a species of tropical fish are able to distinguish between human faces.

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·August 31, 2022·6 min read

Good Face Recognizers Can Learn Faces From Fragments

People 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.

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·February 27, 2017·4 min read

How Being Funny Changes the Brain

Researchers document how the brain's physiology changes when people try to be funny.

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·May 24, 2024·8 min read

How Our Brain Recognizes Objects in Black-and-White Images

A new study explains how the brain excels at recognizing objects in both color and black-and-white images. Researchers found that early exposure to limited color information forces the brain to rely on luminance for object recognition.