Neuroscience: A Face's Journey through Space and Time

Winrich A Freiwald; Haruo Hosoya

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.065

Neuroscience: A Face's Journey through Space and Time

Curr Biol. 2021 Jan 11;31(1):R13-R15. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.065.

Authors

Winrich A Freiwald¹, Haruo Hosoya²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: wfreiwald@rockefeller.edu.
² ATR Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, Hikaridai 2-2-2, Seika-cho, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan. Electronic address: hosoya@atr.jp.

PMID: 33434477
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.065

Abstract

Faces are complex objects of great variety, which the visual brain somehow manages to organize by similarity. Two such orderings in fact exist and one, a new study finds, is transformed into the other over time, enhancing a face's distinctiveness.

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MeSH terms

Face*
Reaction Time