Why Our Brains Recognize Faces So Easily... or Fail at It

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We are constantly recognizing faces countless times a day, but how do our brains distinguish those faces so easily? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: azarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: FFA: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/17/11/4302.full.pdf http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/361/1476/2109.short?casa_token=Sz9B358nGU8AAAAA:lpXDDNL_DnQUvPqYRrs_qdWVamlfZFGPXNySBFiZXAi6_X7wYQ35VBnzUmXyBMVZ3DA0JGSuAESd2JQKoQ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kalanit_Grill-Spector/publication/8625485_Grill-Spector_K_Knouf_N_Kanwisher_N_The_fusiform_face_area_subserves_face_perception_not_generic_within-category_identification_Nat_Neurosci_7_555-562/links/0fcfd5093ebf1093b2000000/Grill-Spector-K-Knouf-N-Kanwisher-N-The-fusiform-face-area-subserves-face-perception-not-generic-within-category-identification-Nat-Neurosci-7-555-562.pdf http://www.biac.duke.edu/education/courses/spring03/cogdev/readings/I.%20Gauthier%20et%20al%20(1999).pdf https://www.scie

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