Have you ever had to say to someone "I'm so bad with names but I remember faces much better."? Well, it turns out the brain has a special region just for recognizing faces. A much-cited study from ...

Are visual face processing mechanisms the same in the left and right cerebral hemispheres? The possibility of such 'duplicated processing' seems puzzling in terms of neural resource usage, and we ...

Lønn’s feats of face recognition make for good pulp fiction, but Kerry Grens’s cover article, “A Face to Remember,” gave me a true-to-life understanding of how face recognition is processed in the ...

"Routine cognitive assessments should be integrated into clinical practice, allowing for early detection and intervention." — Dejan Jakimovski, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of ...

PITTSBURGH, January 3, 2023 — To recognize a famous voice, human brains use the same center that lights up when the speaker’s face is presented, finds a clever neuroscience study where participants ...

The human brain is highly developed compared to other animals, thanks to which humans are believed to have acquired special abilities. One of the important factors considered to contribute to the ...

Folds in the cerebral cortex in mammals are believed to be indispensable for higher brain functions but the mechanisms underlying cortical folding remain unknown. By using the latest genome editing ...