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Hormone important in recognizing familiar faces
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Oxytocin, a hormone involved in child-birth and breast-feeding, helps people recognize familiar faces, according to new research in the January 7 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Study participants who had one dose o ...
Face facts: People don't stand out in crowds
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Why is it difficult to pick out even a familiar face in a crowd? We all experience this, but the phenomenon has been poorly understood until now. The results of a recent study may have implications for individuals with face-recognition ...
Inability to spot faces may be hereditary
Jul 07, 2006 |
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Researchers have found, in the first study into the subject, that the inability to recognize faces is a common, probably hereditary disorder.
Total, genetically-based recall
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2008 |
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There are several human characteristics considered to be genetically predetermined and evolutionarily innate, such as immune system strength, physical adaptations and even sex differences. These qualities drive the nature ...
The nose knows: 2 fixation points needed for face recognition
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Many of us are bad at remembering names but we are very quick to point out that at least we never forget a face. Never mind recognizing a familiar face- how is it that we recognize faces at all? Facial recognition is so automatic ...
Humans and chimps register faces by using similar brain regions
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face, according to a report published online on December 18th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Genetic variation cues social anxiety in monkeys and humans
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A genetic variation involving the brain chemical serotonin has been found to shape the social behavior of rhesus macaque monkeys, which could provide researchers with a new model for studying autism, social anxiety and schizophrenia. ...
'It takes 2 to know 1': Shared experiences change self-recognition
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Looking at yourself in the mirror every morning, you never think to question whether the person you see is actually you. You feel familiar—at home with your own unique self image. After all, you have been sporting the same ...
Face blindness research shows emotions are key in the study of face recognition
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Recognizing the faces of family and friends is usually an effortless process. However, a minority of people have difficulties identifying the person they are meeting or remembering people they have met before. These problems ...
Why people 'never forget a face'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Are you one of those people who never forgets a face? New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more faces than other objects and that faces "stick" the best in our short-term memory. ...
Delusions associated with consistent pattern of brain injury
Jan 13, 2009 |
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A new study provides a novel theory for how delusions arise and why they persist. NYU Langone Medical Center researcher Orrin Devinsky, MD, performed an in-depth analysis of patients with certain delusions and brain disorders ...
Novelty aids learning
Aug 03, 2006 |
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Exposure to new experiences improves memory, according to research by UCL psychologists and medical doctors that could hold major implications for the treatment of memory problems. The study, published in Neuron on 3 Augu ...
You can control your Marilyn Monroe neuron
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a scientific first, researchers have been able to demonstrate the ability of humans to control the activity of individual brain cells.
Briefs: Feds nab alleged SoCal 'pfisher' on fraud
Jan 27, 2006 |
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Federal agents in Los Angeles arrested an Azusa man Thursday on charges he was a 'pfisher' who targeted America Online users.
Like humans, monkeys fall into the 'uncanny valley'
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." The scientists have found that monkeys ...
