DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - From autism to basic self-awareness, V.S. Ramachandran, author of THE TELL-TALE BRAIN, traces the links between neurology and behavior as the featured speaker at Aloud at ...

Our brains are tuned to find faces so well, in fact, that we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or craters on Moon. The brain always knows a real face from a ...

In his incredibly insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking new book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest For What Makes Us Human, Ramachandran begins by challenging readers to ...

Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran, a pioneer in the field of visual perception, explains how his simple experiments in behavioral neurology have changed the lives of patients suffering from a variety ...

The Tell-Tale Brain. A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran. ... Biological puzzles abound in an up-close look at a human brain By Laura Sanders May 23, 2024.

Though researchers have long hypothesized that the inferior temporal cortex, which processes visual stimuli, was also where the brain distinguished faces, they didn’t have any proof.

The brain processes visual cues to decide if a face or ... An algorithm can tell if your face is ... They made about 5,000 online participants look at a set of images and asked them to press a ...

Finally, the researchers compared the brain and behavioral responses, and tested whether they could predict how a given participant would categorize an ambiguous stimulus (as a face or hand) based ...