Face recognition: the eyes have it
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 08:49
in Biology & Nature
Our brain extracts important information for face recognition principally from the eyes, and secondly from the mouth and nose, according to a new study from a researcher at the University of Barcelona. This result, published 27th March in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, was obtained by analysing several hundred face images in a way similar to that of the brain...
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