Adrian Dyer previously received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), and the United States Air Force AOARD for assistance in developing the ...

A recent study, published in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, concluded that face masks may interfere with the ability to recognize and process faces in children aged 6 to ...

Researchers have found that the subliminal presentation of images of one's own face activates a central component of the dopamine reward pathway, thus illuminating the mechanisms behind our powerful ...

Researchers analyzed the impact of aging on face processing and found that it may hamper the neural processing of facial expressions of emotion, and this difficulty may be intensified during the ...

People with prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," have trouble recognizing faces -- even those of close friends and family members. It often causes serious social problems, although some people can ...

The wasps and bees buzzing around your garden might seem like simple-minded creatures. They build nests, forage for nectar, raise their young and then die, their lives typically playing out over the ...

Led by Debbie Ma, we have developed a database of faces including images of more than 600 individuals, female and male, from a variety of racial and ethnic groups (Asian, Black, Latino, White). For ...

Objects that resemble faces are everywhere. Whether it’s New Hampshire’s erstwhile granite “Old Man of the Mountain,” or Jesus’ face on a tortilla, our brains are adept at locating images that look ...

When Lisa Brown was about five, she got into a tiff with two friends who were brothers. It happened at their house after lunch, when she started interchanging their names. “They got very upset with me ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But some insects are surprisingly adept at this task The wasps and bees buzzing around your garden ...