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Article: Features or creatures: visual expertise taps same neural networks.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- October 4, 2004
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2004 OCT 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adult humans and primates are face experts, able to quickly and accurately spot children in a crowded mall or mates in a thick forest. This critical adaptation has given rise to a decades-long scientific debate: Does the human brain contain a region used exclusively for identifying faces?
Research conducted at Brown University and published in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supports a mounting body of evidence that such a "face module" does not exist. Instead, researchers are finding that the same networks of neurons used to process faces are also used by people who are expert ...