Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Researchers map how the brain processes faces from sight to recognition


Researchers map how the brain processes faces from sight to recognition

01/04/2017 01:26 PM EST

face recognition

Researchers used highly sophisticated brain imaging tools and computational methods to measure the real-time brain processes that convert the appearance of a face into the recognition of an individual. They are hopeful that the findings might be used in the near future to locate the exact point at which the visual perception system breaks down in different disorders and injuries, ranging from developmental dyslexia to prosopagnosia, or face blindness.


Full story at http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2016/december/brain-map-processes-faces.html

Source
Carnegie Mellon University


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