News articles tagged with 'face'
Innovative technique gives vision researchers insight into how people recognise faces
— 17 Mar 2011 20:39 | HealthIt is no surprise to scientists that the largest social network on the web is called Facebook. Identifying people by their face is fundamental to our social interactions, one of the…
How do we combine faces and voices?
— 9 Mar 2011 20:11 | HealthHuman social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and…
Converting 2-D photo into 3-D face for security applications and forensics
— 20 Jan 2011 16:22 | TechnologyIt is possible to construct a three-dimensional, 3D, face from flat 2D images, according to research published in the International Journal of Biometrics this month. The discovery could…
Our perceptions of masculinity and femininity are swayed by our sense of touch
— 12 Jan 2011 16:55 | HealthGender stereotypes suggest that men are usually tough and women are usually tender. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science,…
Men with macho faces attractive to fertile women, researchers find
— 11 Jan 2011 17:14 | HealthWhen their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasise about masculine-looking men than are women paired with George…
Psychologists find skill in recognising faces peaks after age 30
— 4 Jan 2011 20:59 | HealthScientists have made the surprising discovery that our ability to recognise and remember faces peaks at age 30 to 34, about a decade later than most of our other mental abilities…
What makes a face look alive? Study says it's in the eyes
— 4 Jan 2011 19:47 | HealthThe face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is. Telling the difference allows us to pay attention to faces that belong to living things, which are capable of…
Brain's visual circuits do error correction on the fly
— 8 Dec 2010 16:56 | HealthThe brain's visual neurones continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according…
MIT study: Adding face shields to helmets could help avoid blast-induced brain injuries
— 23 Nov 2010 18:26 | HealthMore than half of all combat-related injuries sustained by U.S. troops are the result of explosions, and many of those involve injuries to the head. According to the U.S. Department…
Perception of emotion is culture-specific
— 15 Sep 2010 18:00 | HealthWant to know how a Japanese person is feeling? Pay attention to the tone of his voice, not his face. That's what other Japanese people would do, anyway. A new study examines how Dutch…