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Faces and races in the human brain
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010801-03
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Humans are better at recognizing individuals of their own race than of other races, but the mechanism that controls the neuronal activity of this still controversial social interaction, remains unknown. In the August Nature Neuroscience, Alexandra Golby and colleagues from Stanford University, California show that seeing individuals of the same race activates specific brain circuits in a previously identified face recognition area.
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