Science news articles about 'familiar faces'

... . Further analysis showed that oxytocin selectively improved the discrimination of new and familiar faces — participants with oxytocin were less likely to mistakenly characterize unfamiliar faces as ...

... Never mind recognizing a familiar face- how is it that we recognize faces at all? Facial recognition is so automatic ... exactly where our eyes land when we see a face. Cognitive Scientists Janet Hui-wen ...

... their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face, according to a report published online on December 18th in Current Biology, a Cell Press ...

... their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face. The study -- the first to examine brain activity in chimpanzees after they attempt to match ...

... hemisphere give rise to deficits in the visual-spatial perception, such as the inability to recognize familiar faces. In the last few years, we have become used to the idea that functional asymmetry ...

Everyone knows it's a bad idea to talk to strangers, and it seems elephants feel the same way, according to new research in the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers from the ...

... statements made without conscious effort to deceive), Capgras (the ability to consciously recognize familiar faces but not emotionally connect with them) and Prosopagnosia (patients who may fail to ...

... that we don't just get better at the task of picking out a familiar face amongst a crowd, for example. Our results tell us that previous experience can train circuits in our brains to ...