face perception

Pale skin and hanging eyelids are tell-tale signs of apparent illness.

The tool cannot predict a person’s face from DNA, say researchers—including some listed as coauthors on the publication. 

The brains of Polistes paper wasps express different genes when identifying faces than when distinguishing between simple patterns, a study finds.

Researchers could reconstruct the faces a monkey saw from the patterns of neuronal activity in a certain area of the brain.

Dogs trained to stay still in an MRI machine show activity in the temporal cortex when shown a human face.

For neuroscientists, experimental results converge to help crack the case of how the brain functions.

Once dominated by correlational studies, face-perception research is moving into the realm of experimentation—and gaining tremendous insight.

Ron Blackwell helps neuroscientists map the circuitry of face perception by letting them stimulate his brain with electricity.