Editor’s Selections: Comparing brains, comparing bodies, comparing faces, and getting depressed

March 9th, 2010 Editor's Selections 2 Comments
By Dave Munger

smalldaveDave Munger selects several notable posts each week from psychology and neuroscience. He blogs at The Daily Monthly and has a weekly column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.

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2 Responses to “Editor’s Selections: Comparing brains, comparing bodies, comparing faces, and getting depressed”

  1. Grant Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    Just a small correction so that readers following the link won’t be disappointed: my article in fact mostly looks at how people can be poor at face recognition. I don’t say a lot about how people can be good at it, unfortunately!

    The article has some material on prosopagnosia (inability to recognise faces, which is surprisingly common) and background on twin studies for non-scientists in addition to the paper reviewed, which is about how our ability to recognise faces as a strong genetic component acting on a distinct face recognition system in the brain.

  2. Dave Munger Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 9:19 am

    Thanks for the correction, Grant. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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