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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A region in ventral human cortex (fusiform face area, FFA) thought to be important for face perception responds strongly to faces and less strongly to nonface objects. This pattern of response may ...

2 New ANTIGONE Adaptation to Receive Free Staged Reading from No Stone Theatre Co. The cast includes OBIE Award winners Tom Nelis (Broadway's Indecent, The Visit, Enron) and Paul Zimet (The Room Sings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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