http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. When it comes to picking a face out of a police lineup, would you guess that you would use some of the same processes a pigeon might use? http://phys.org/news221760282.html Biology Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:04:55 EST news221760282 The way that humans perceive each other is strongly affected by the configuration, contour, and complexion of faces. Researchers from Toyohashi Tech report the importance of facial color on neural responses underlying perception. http://phys.org/news220285096.html Medicine & Health Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:18:30 EST news220285096 It 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 primary reasons vision researchers are trying to find out how our brain processes facial identity. http://phys.org/news219517745.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:09:22 EST news219517745 Human 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 they are rich in information such as gender, age, and body size, that lead to a unique identity for a person. A large body of neuropsychological and neuroimaging research has already determined the various brain regions responsible for face recognition and voice recognition separately, but exactly how our brain goes about combining the two different types of information (visual and auditory) is still unknown. http://phys.org/news218891694.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:00:01 EST news218891694 Every woman's dream is to have her own personal make-up artist. That dream could soon be a reality with a computer that scans your face and suggests the perfect personalised make-up combination. http://phys.org/news218183422.html Technology Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:40:06 EST news218183422 The 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 interacting with us. But where is the line at which a face appears to be alive? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a face has to be quite similar to a human face in order to appear alive, and that the cues are mainly in the eyes. http://phys.org/news212072108.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:30:03 EST news212072108 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new online experiment has discovered that people between the ages of 30 and 34 are best able to remember faces. This finding contradicts the traditional belief that mental faculties all begin to decline from early adulthood. http://phys.org/news211613276.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:40:01 EST news211613276 (PhysOrg.com) -- Why is President Barack Obama — the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya -- considered a black man? http://phys.org/news209899880.html Other Sciences Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:31:34 EST news209899880 (PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person's field of view, but female when they appear in a different location. http://phys.org/news209824585.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:36:44 EST news209824585 (PhysOrg.com) -- The angle we tilt our head can play a significant role in how attractive we are to the opposite sex, according to latest research. http://phys.org/news209641995.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:54:34 EST news209641995 Japanese research group led by Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi and Dr. Emi Nakato (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) and Prof. Masami K Yamaguchi (Chuo University) found that the hemispheric differences in the temporal area overlying superior temporal sulcus (STS) when processing positive (happy) and negative (angry) facial expressions in infants. Their finding was reported in NeuroImage. http://phys.org/news208172643.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:10:01 EST news208172643 Dr. Minami and colleagues at the Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, investigated the P3 component using an oddball paradigm. http://phys.org/news207481166.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:39:47 EST news207481166 (PhysOrg.com) -- Men who are looking for short-term companionship are more interested in a woman's body than those looking for a long-term relationship, who focused on a woman's face, according to new research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin. http://phys.org/news204225572.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:19:59 EST news204225572 In our dynamic 3D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2D snapshots perceived by our eyes (like a camera) to build and store a 3D mental representation of the face, which is resilient to such changes. http://phys.org/news203246757.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:26:59 EST news203246757 (PhysOrg.com) -- How do we determine the racial background of a person that we have just met? The facial characteristics of various racial groups differ in many respects, ranging from the colour of their skin to the physical shape and size of their features. http://phys.org/news202458278.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:25:30 EST news202458278 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers reporting in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin last week say people are drawn to others who resemble their parents or themselves. This may explain why incest taboos are found in many cultures - to counter a natural tendency. http://phys.org/news199509031.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:50:02 EST news199509031 French doctors have carried out a successful full-face transplant -- eyelids, tear ducts and all -- on a 35-year-old man, the hospital where the operation took place confirmed on Thursday. http://phys.org/news197786244.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:37:45 EST news197786244 In the largest study of its kind Dr Michael Lewis of Cardiff University's School of Psychology, collected a random sample of 1205 black, white, and mixed-race faces. http://phys.org/news190463674.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:01 EST news190463674 You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you -- until you realize this person is you. Scenarios like this are impossible for us to imagine, but quite common for sufferers of acquired prosopagnosia (AP), a condition which can occur after brain damage, hindering the ability to recognize faces. In a new study published in the March 2010 issue of Elsevier's Cortex, researchers have found that the condition is linked to an inability to process faces as a whole, or holistically. http://phys.org/news185020789.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:40:01 EST news185020789 (PhysOrg.com) -- Caucasians and Asians don't examine faces in the same way, according to new research. PhD student Caroline Blais, of the Université de Montréal Department of Psychology, has published two studies on the subject: one in Current Biology and the other in PLoS One. http://phys.org/news183724341.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:32:36 EST news183724341 (PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and her mouth are key factors in determining how attractive she is to others, according to new psychology research from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Toronto. http://phys.org/news180195066.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:30:04 EST news180195066 "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. http://phys.org/news179170846.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:02 EST news179170846 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. http://phys.org/news176055134.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:12:45 EST news176055134 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research suggests the old saying commonly told to husbands-to-be is true, that if you want to know what your wife will look like, look at her mother. http://phys.org/news175937114.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:28:29 EST news175937114 Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds of vocalizations to different species. http://phys.org/news175188811.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:37:09 EST news175188811 Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. http://phys.org/news173973620.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:01:05 EST news173973620 Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research. http://phys.org/news173346511.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:49:01 EST news173346511 Identifying a face can be difficult when that face is shown for only a fraction of a second. However, young adults have a marked advantage over elderly people in these conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience found indications that elderly people have reduced perception speed. http://phys.org/news171657769.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:02 EST news171657769 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to potential mates, women may be as complicated as men claim they are, according to psychologists. http://phys.org/news170331327.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:15:58 EST news170331327 A chimp's attention is captured by faces more effectively than by bananas. A series of experiments described in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the apes are wired to respond to faces in a similar manner to humans. http://phys.org/news167548374.html Biology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:13:57 EST news167548374