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 ...

Neuroscientists have identified face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to. For more than a decade, neuroscientists have known that many of the cells in a brain region called ...

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 ...

Ron Blackwell was sitting in his hospital bed at Stanford, a bundle of wires blossoming out of his skull, when his doctor shot a short blast of electricity deep into his brain. Blackwell, eyes locked ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 37 (September 15, 2020), pp. 23011-23020 (10 pages) The fusiform face area responds selectively to faces ...

Scientists trying to understand and treat autism have discovered that the brains of people with autism function differently than those of normal people when they view pictures of unfamiliar people.

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been associated with hyper-reactivity in limbic brain regions like the amygdala, both during symptom provocation and emotional face processing tasks. In this ...

Researchers are trying to understand the mechanisms at work in the face area of the brain called the "fusiform gyrus" by combining cognitive psychology with techniques like brain imaging and ...

Ron Blackwell didn’t enter the hospital expecting to see his doctor’s face melt before his eyes. But that’s exactly what happened when researchers electrically stimulated a small part of his brain, ...

PITTSBURGH, July 20 (UPI) --How does the human brain process words? It's a question that troubled neuroscientists for more than 200 years. "Wernicke, Dejerine, and Charcot, among the most important ...

Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us blog ...

I'VE recently discovered the crime writer Jo Nesbo and have been devouring his books. I'm fascinated by a female cop who is one of the main characters. She has an amazing thing going on with her ...