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I am a lecturer and also IT engineer. But currently I am studying Medical Bioengineering in Kumamoto University, Japan. My research focuses on Facial Perception.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Facial recognition at first glance: Humans and monkeys perceive faces of kin immediately


We meet a multitude of people on a daily basis: the nice waitress in the coffee shop around the corner, the bus driver or the colleagues at the office. Without the ability to recognize faces at first glance we would not be able to distinguish between people. Monkeys also possess the remarkable ability to differentiate faces of group members and to extract the relevant information about the individual directly from the face

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Facial recognition at first glance: Humans and monkeys perceive faces of kin immediately

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