How the brain recognizes familiar faces: Macaque study suggests we are NOT born with the ability, as it’s instead shaped through repeated exposure

Researchers have long thought that being able to recognize faces is innate in humans and other primates, and that something in our brains just knows how to do this from birth.

But a new brain imaging study suggests otherwise – macaques need to have been exposed to faces from a young age to be able to recognize faces.

The findings shed light on a range of neuro-developmental conditions, including those in which people can’t distinguish between different faces or autism, which is marked by aversion to looking at faces.

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