Sneak Peek: How the Brain Reads Faces

 

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Cracking the Neural Code Identifying faces is an everyday occurrence that we easily do without conscious effort. But how do networks in the brain take various facial features and assemble them into a sensible picture of the world? It is a feat full of puzzling intricacies that investigators are attempting to parse. Here, in an exclusive sneek peak of our February cover story, Face Values, neuroscientist and MacArthur Fellow Doris Tsao explains how she helped crack the code behind the neural mechanisms of vision.

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