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Your brain has a region devoted to faces

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The fusiform face area exists solely to parse facial features, which explains why we instantly recognize a friend but spend ten minutes looking for our car keys. We are hyper-specialized for facial recognition.

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Your brain has a region devoted to faces — STACKY / Psychology

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