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According to the conclusions of a new study by experts at Brown University, it would appear that two types of neurons in a region of the brain called the inferior temporal cortex are involved in the complex mental process of recognizing objects.
Even though we do this automatically, without conscious processing, the... |
12 April 2012
05:27 GMT |
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The fact that not all people are equally capable of recognizing faces has been made painfully obvious to many. But researchers have always been unclear about what brain area or neural process is underlying the difference. A new study now proposes an interesting explanation for this.
The research proposes that indiv... |
5 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new investigation, researchers learned that the human brain is capable of recognizing things faster if it knows what it's about to see. In other words, if it has seen a thing before, it's more likely to recognize it faster. The new discovery goes against established knowledge of how the ... |
5 February 2011
04:13 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new computer simulation, which they say is capable of mimicking the way in which the human brain recognizes things. The model is naturally based on visual perception, and not on hearing, smell and so on. If mo... |
7 June 2010
09:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the University College London (UCL) were recently able to confirm that the innate human ability to recognize other people's face is something that is primarily determined by each individual's genetic makeup. The new investigation, which was conducted on twins, determined that identical sibling... |
23 February 2010
04:45 GMT |
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For most of us, staring in a window or mirror and recognizing our own face is something that we do automatically, and therefore many take this for granted. However, there is a small group of people that tend to fail in recognizing themselves, and these individuals suffer from a condition known as acquired prosopagnos... |
10 February 2010
16:01 GMT |
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In a new series of experiments, scientists asked a number of volunteers to look at photos of androgynous faces, and determine which was male and which was female. The participants were very likely to say that people with lower eyebrows and tight lips – signs of anger – were men, while the characters with ... |
7 December 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Until recently, evidence that plants were able to recognize each other, and cooperate for their mutual benefit has been scarce and controversial, mostly because a lot of people cannot accept the fact that it doesn't take a brain to want to ensure your survival as a species. But recent experiments, conducted on t... |
2 June 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Since the beginning of time, people have looked at birds as being nothing more than a useful tool at times, and an annoying pest on most occasions. However, a new research comes to show that at least some birds are able to distinguish among the people they see, and can also assess which of them poses the largest thre... |
21 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Face recognition is one of the characteristics of our brains that make us humans, and evolution has endowed us with this ability so that we don't have to smell each other every time we meet, just to ensure we're talking to the right person. But it would seem that some people are better at it than others, a... |
20 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The science of robotics is currently struggling to cope with one of the most difficult challenges it has come across, and namely making robots recognize their surroundings when they return from missions, if the area is changed. Moving vehicles, parked cars, repainted buildings, they are all obstacles for a robot to r... |
25 February 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Since photos of missing children don't provide as many results as would be necessary, it is clear that something about them has to be changed in order to infer more info from them. With this thought in mind, Mississippi State University-Meridian researcher and assistant professor of psychology Vicki S. Gier came... |
3 November 2008
07:07 GMT |
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There can be no doubt about it, technology has began moving at the speed of light, while humanity is trying to keep its pace. Yes, I know that the very same humans are to "blame" for the pace at which things are going, but it's a delicate topic, one that has too long been debated by religious groups and science ... |
4 January 2008
20:11 GMT |
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Vlingo Corporation just launched a limited beta version of vlingo, a breakthrough voice-powered interface for mobile devices based on a revolutionary speech recognition technology. With vlingo you can forget about annoying tapping on the tiny keypads of your handheld, as it enables you to control, by voice, your pho... |
23 August 2007
09:45 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that for a Westerner, all the Chinese or Japanese faces look the same. The fact may have some triviality in it, but it can lead from embarrassment or social castigation to eye-witness misidentifications, which is already a severer effect. But what induces the cross-race effect is still a scien... |
15 August 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Supercomputers greatly surpass humans when it comes to performing complex mathematical calculations and processing speed, but there are some things no algorithm can do, at least for now, because they require advanced learning abilities that computers simply don't possess.Learning languages is one of these daunt... |
24 July 2007
04:19 GMT |
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