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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you feel overwhelmed by an ever-growing social circle, fear not. Your brain can keep up with all those new faces, thanks to one region that continues to grow even in adulthood. The discovery is ...

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 ...

Seeing kids getting excited about cartoons is hardly cause for alarm, but when David Grelotti, a former research assistant at the Yale Child Study Center, observed that autistic children knew more ...

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 ...

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Talking Band are currently presenting the world premiere of Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns, written and composed by OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow, and directed by Ellie ...

For more than a decade, neuroscientists have known that many of the cells in a brain region called the fusiform gyrus specialize in recognizing faces. However, those cells don’t act alone: They need ...