A map for other people’s faces has been discovered in the brain

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  1. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    To be precise, it's been found in the region in the occipital face area in which features that are next to each other on a real face are organised together in the brain’s representation of that face. This discovery could help explain why some of us are better at recognising faces than others. The team of researchers have called this map the "faciotopy".
    https://www.newscientist.com/articl...pped-on-the-surface-of-other-peoples-brains/?

    Paper on Faciotopy: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945215002464
     
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  3. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    I use to recognize faces now I'm a telepath going for the James Randi reward. I can reproduce a glowing tree and human. It's called lucidity.

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    It's the age of brain.
     
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  5. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    I'm very good at recognizing faces. I just wish I could remember where I know them from.
     
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