{"id":2658,"date":"2016-01-21T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:49:13","slug":"your-face-is-mapped-on-the-surface-of-other-peoples-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/your-face-is-mapped-on-the-surface-of-other-peoples-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Your face is mapped on the surface of other people\u2019s brains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A map for other people\u2019s faces has\u00a0been discovered in the brain. It could help explain why some of us are better at recognising faces than others.<\/p>\n

Every part of your body that you can move or feel is represented in the outer layer of your brain. These \u201cmaps\u201d, found in the motor and sensory cortices (see diagram, below), tend to preserve the basic spatial layout of the body \u2013 neurons that represent our fingers are closer to neurons that represent our arms than our feet, for example.<\/p>\n

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The same goes for other people\u2019s faces, says Linda Henriksson<\/a> at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her team scanned 12 people\u2019s brains while they looked at hundreds of images of noses, eyes, mouths and other facial features and recorded which bits of the brain became active.<\/p>\n

This revealed a region in the occipital face area in which features that are next to each other on a real face are organised together in the brain\u2019s representation of that face. The team have called this map the \u201cfaciotopy\u201d.<\/p>\n

The occipital face area is a region of the brain known to be involved in general facial processing. \u201cFacial recognition is so fundamental to human behaviour that it makes sense that there would be a specialised area of the brain that maps features of the face,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is taken from\u00a0here   A map for other people\u2019s faces has\u00a0been discovered in the brain. It could help explain why some of us are better at recognising faces than others. Every part of your body that you can move or feel is represented in the outer layer of your brain. These \u201cmaps\u201d, found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}