Have we met before? Direct connections between brain areas responsible for voice, face recognition
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 06:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- Face and voice are the two main features by which we recognise other people. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have now discovered that there is a direct structural connection consisting of fibre pathways between voice- and face-recognition areas in the human brain. The exchange of information, which is assumed to take place between these areas via this connection, could help us to quickly identify familiar people in everyday situations and also under adverse conditions.