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Face processing slows with age

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Identifying a face can be difficult when that face is shown for only a fraction of a second. However, young adults have a marked advantage over elderly people in these conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal ...


Naming may be key to brain's ability to recognize faces

Naming may be key to brain's ability to recognize faces

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our tendency to see people and faces as individuals may explain why we are such experts at recognizing them, new research indicates. This approach can be learned and applied to other objects ...


A human failure, seen at face value

A human failure, seen at face value

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a ...





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A face by any other name: Seeing racial bias

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

If Barack Obama had taken his mother's surname and kept his childhood nickname, American voters might literally see "Barry Dunham" as a quite different presidential candidate, a new study suggests. A name significantly changes ...


Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception (Video)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats ...


The nose knows: 2 fixation points needed for face recognition

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created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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 ...


'It takes 2 to know 1': Shared experiences change self-recognition

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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 ...


Saving face with a baby-face? Shape of CEO's face affects public perception

Other Sciences / Other

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When a corporation has a public relations crisis, the news media splash photos of the company's CEO around the world. According to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research the shape of the CEO's face evokes judgments ...


Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.


Gender and age can be determined from face silhouettes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 21, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new study published in Journal of Vision demonstrates that face silhouettes are visually processed much like regular face stimuli and provide enough information to determine traits about the subject including age and ge ...


A direct gaze enhances face perception

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Gaze direction is significant for the processing of visual information from the human face. Researchers in an Academy of Finland funded research project have discovered that the visual system of the brain processes another ...


Infant sensitivity to negative emotional expressions develops at around 6 months

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists working in the Academy-funded Research Programme on Neuroscience (NEURO) have discovered important changes in the way that infants react to another person's face at age 5-7 months.


Psychologist explores perception of fear in human sweat

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar ...



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