Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've ...

The authors show that structural connectivity, as measured by diffusion-weighted imaging, can predict functional activation to faces in the fusiform gyrus. The structure–function correspondence ...

Faces convey a wealth of social signals. A dominant view in face-perception research has been that the recognition of facial identity and facial expression involves separable visual pathways at ...

On the left side of the brain, the fusiform gyrus -- an area long associated with face recognition -- carefully calculates how "facelike" an image is. The right fusiform gyrus then appears to use ...

But brain scans have revealed that one area of the cortex, the fusiform gyrus, gets much larger as we age. The fusiform gyrus is thought to play a role in recognising faces, something that adults ...

Dr Dijkstra added: "Our findings suggest that the brain uses the strength of sensory signals to distinguish between imagination and reality." The study also showed that the fusiform gyrus ...

"Learning nouns activates the left fusiform gyrus, while learning verbs switches on other regions (the left inferior frontal gyrus and part of the left posterior medial temporal gyrus)," says ...