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Enigma of how faces are encoded in the brain

June 1, 2017 by

When you look at photos of faces, your brain is able to instantly identify the ones that you know and distinguish among those that you've never seen before. In recent years, neuroscientists have begun to peek inside the brain's black box to understand how the brain is able to recognize and perceive faces. Now researchers report that they have cracked the code for facial identity in the primate brain.

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