{"id":29121,"date":"2019-07-26T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=29121"},"modified":"2019-05-29T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:00:13","slug":"study-suggests-widespread-brain-connections-enable-face-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/07\/study-suggests-widespread-brain-connections-enable-face-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests widespread brain connections enable face recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><strong>Remembering a familiar face engages a wider network of brain regions than previously thought<\/strong>, according to a study of healthy men and women published in\u00a0<em>JNeurosci<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>First described in\u00a0<em>JNeurosci<\/em>\u00a0more than 20 years ago, the <strong>fusiform face area<\/strong> is a major component of a group of brain regions specialized for face perception known as the face network. The ability to recognize familiar faces varies, from individuals who are &#8220;face blind&#8221; to those with above-average facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Michal Ramot and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health found that strength of connections within the face network were not associated with memory for faces. By taking a broader view of the brain, the researchers demonstrate connectivity between the face network and other circuits involved in memory and processing of social, visual, and auditory information predicted participants&#8217; performance on a facial memory task. These findings suggest <strong>face recognition involves the integration of facial features with the social and multisensory context in which they appear in everyday life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Remembering a familiar face engages a wider network of brain regions than previously thought, according to a study of healthy men and women&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/07\/study-suggests-widespread-brain-connections-enable-face-recognition\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,60],"tags":[42,93,363,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29597,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions\/29597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}