Identifying the Brain's Own Facial Recognition System
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/identifying-the-brains-own-facia.html?ref=em by Elizabeth Norton on 23 October 2012, 6:00 PM The ability to recognize faces is so important in humans that the brain appears to have an area solely devoted to the task: the fusiform gyrus. Brain imaging studies consistently find that this region of the temporal lobe becomes active when people look at faces. Skeptics have countered, however, that these studies show only a correlation, but not proof, that activity in this area is essential for face recognition. Now, thanks to the willingness of an