Sentences with phrase «brain face recognition»

Not exact matches

Team physicians, athletic trainers, and other personnel responsible for the medical care of athletes face no more challenging problem than the recognition, evaluation and management of concussions (generally defined as injury to the brain caused by a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head that results in any immediate, but temporary, alteration in brain functions, such as loss of consciousness, blurred vision, dizziness, amnesia or loss of memory).

During the process of face recognition, the brain analyzes countless details, such as the texture of the skin and the shapes of the eyes, jawbone, and lips.

The brain's cortex, where most cognitive functions occur, has areas specialized for reading as well as face recognition, language comprehension, and many other tasks.

In the late 1990s brain - imaging studies revealed that discrete regions of the temporal lobe — a section of the human brain important for object recognition — fired up more strongly when people looked at faces than at any other thing.

Now, using a combination of brain imaging and single - neuron recording in macaques, biologist Doris Tsao and her colleagues at Caltech have finally cracked the neural code for face recognition.

Personable brain cells: Neurons as virtuosos of face, object recognition.

To assess your own face recognition ability, check out the Recognizing Faces test on TestMyBrain.org, a website that helps people better understand what makes their minds and brains unique through a series of tests.

They found that in 17 of the 19 participants the fusiform face area, the brain's face - recognition region, was turned on most strongly when they saw somebody of their own color, indicating that it responds to certain kinds of faces with greater acuity.

Studies have shown, for example, that intranasal oxytocin administration may increase emotion recognition and brain activity during face perception.

Although the amygdala's importance in face recognition and emotional assessment is well - known, little is understood about how these processes work, but research led by investigators at Cedars - Sinai and the California Institute of Technology has found that at least some of the brain cells that specialize in recognizing emotions may represent judgments based on the viewer's preconceptions rather than the true emotion being expressed.

Avoiding eye contact is a hallmark of this developmental disorder, and researchers have looked for the cause in the brain's fusiform gyrus region, active in face recognition.

The part of the brain that lit up with activity during those moments of pareidolia was the right fusiform face area, known to be responsible for facial recognition.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

The fact that the fish behaves like we do, says Wang, could be a sign that it too has a unique brain pathway for face recognition.

Magnetic resonance scans of human and monkey brains suggested as much, but in 2010, Freiwald published a study describing the neuroanatomy of macaque monkeys» face - recognition mechanism in much greater detail.

Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition.

In 1999, they joined the department of psychology in Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science — Gauthier to explore how the brain develops face - recognition expertise, and Marois to pursue the neural bases of attention and information processing.

In 2013, Fusiform Gyrus, curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, enticed visitors into a sensory landscape, with the exhibition name belonging to part of the brain involved in face recognition.