Making Faces: How the Brain Is Built to Help Us Pick out Faces in the Crowd

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2014-02-04
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Swarthmore College
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Chris Vecsey is a visiting professor in the biology department, teaching courses in neurobiology, sleep and circadian rhythms, epigenetics, and cell biology. He has studied the molecular mechanisms of memory formation and the effects of sleep deprivation in mice, and now studies the brain signals that control sleep and wakefulness in fruit flies. The topic of this particular talk is a departure from Chris' primary interests, and instead deals with the fascinating topic of how the brain processes visual information to produce the perception of a face.
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