The Neuroscience of Grief, with Mary-Frances O’Connor
Instant Genius
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Facial Recognition Is a Very Important Thing for Human Beings
Facial recognition is a very specific and very important thing for human beings to do. And so we know looking at faces er uses this usiform gyrus area. We know that partly because sometimes people have damage to this area of their brain, and they lose the ability to distinguish between faces. So as people are looking at the photo of their loved one, there's more activation in this facial recognition area when you're looking at a loved one.
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