A human failure, seen at face value

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 13:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. A new study from MIT looks at a particularly striking instance of failure: our impaired ability to recognize faces in photographic negatives.

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