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 ...

Functional imaging has revealed face-responsive visual areas in the human fusiform gyrus, but their role in recognizing familiar individuals remains controversial. Face recognition is particularly ...

A part of the brain that’s responsible for recognizing faces seems to grow new tissue throughout childhood. That’s surprising, because brain development during childhood usually involves pruning back ...

Kalanit Grill-Spector, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, and her colleagues compared MRI scans from 22 children between the ages of 5 and 12, and 25 adults between the ages of 22 and 28, and ...

Schizophrenia is a highly inheritable brain disorder. Previous studies have proved that neurological soft signs (NSS) are strongly associated with the cortical-subcortical-cerebellum circuit, the main ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...