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Does stimulation of the face area change the appearance of faces?
In this astonishing video from Josef Parvizi and Kalanit Grill-Spector at Stanford, you meet a man who has electrodes right on his face area (for medical reasons), and he tells us what he sees when that region of his brain is stimulated.
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Shortcomings of human face recognition
In some situations, humans are surprisingly bad at face recognition. Related Videos Individual differences in face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia What is the role of experience in the development of face recognition?
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What Happens when you Stimulate the Face Area?
Related Videos How good are we at face recognition Discovering a face specific region with fMRI Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Individual differences in face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia
People differ markedly from each other in their face recognition ability. Face recognition ability is heritable and is not correlated with IQ, and some otherwise normal, perfectly smart people are so bad at face recognition they routinely fail to recognize close friends…
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How good are we at face recognition
Until very recently, humans were much better at face recognition than any computer vision system. But all of a sudden computers seem to be nearly matching human performance. But might we still be better than computers in more real-world face recognition tasks?…
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What you can learn from studying behavior
This talk uses face perception as a case study to illustrate the power of low-tech behavioral methods; observations from reaction and time and accuracy in face perception tasks reveal “signatures” of face recognition (inversion effects, composite effects, part-whole effects) that yield fundamental…
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How early does face perception develop in childhood?
It was once thought that face recognition takes abut ten years to develop fully, but more recent research shows that adult-like face recognition is present at the earliest ages scientists have been able to test it. Related Videos What is the role…
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What is the role of experience in the development of face recognition?
Experience with faces does affect our face recognition abilities, but not in the way you might expect. Related Videos Discovering a face specific regionwith fMRI How early does face perception develop in childhood?
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Discovering a face specific region with fMRI
Here I describe the basic fMRI evidence for the fusiform face area, how we test alternative hypotheses to face specificity, and the functional region of interest method. Related Videos What happens when you stimulate the face area? An important challenge to the…
