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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.” —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) We moderns take it for granted that consciousness is intimately tied up with the ...