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Facts behind the face

Published on
March 23, 2007
Last updated
May 22, 2015

A flaw that has lain hidden for decades in classic experiments into how people recognise faces has been exposed by Bangor University neuroscientist Guillaume Thierry. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience , has overturned the theory that the human brain categorises faces in a different way from, say, cars or flowers.

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