People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Have you ever had to say to someone "I'm so bad with names but I remember faces much better."? Well, it turns out the brain has a special region just for recognizing faces. A much-cited study from ...

Neuroscientists have identified face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to. For more than a decade, neuroscientists have known that many of the cells in a brain region called ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that ...

Functional imaging has revealed face-responsive visual areas in the human fusiform gyrus, but their role in recognizing familiar individuals remains controversial. Face recognition is particularly ...

I'VE recently discovered the crime writer Jo Nesbo and have been devouring his books. I'm fascinated by a female cop who is one of the main characters. She has an amazing thing going on with her ...

Ron Blackwell was sitting in his hospital bed at Stanford, a bundle of wires blossoming out of his skull, when his doctor shot a short blast of electricity deep into his brain. Blackwell, eyes locked ...

A region in ventral human cortex (fusiform face area, FFA) thought to be important for face perception responds strongly to faces and less strongly to nonface objects. This pattern of response may ...

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Talking Band will present the world premiere of Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns, written and composed by OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow, and directed by Ellie Heyman, ...