Publications by authors named "Kira N Noad"
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- Researchers examined how the brain responds to familiar people and places while participants watched "Game of Thrones," using fMRI to measure neural activity.
- Familiar participants showed stronger connections in brain areas associated with memory and emotions, indicating higher inter-subject correlations compared to unfamiliar ones.
- Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) participants exhibited reduced familiarity effects in their brain networks, suggesting that recognizing faces relies on a broader network that connects visual and nonvisual brain regions.
Although the ability to recognise familiar faces is a critical part of everyday life, the process by which a face becomes familiar in the real world is not fully understood. Previous research has focussed on the importance of perceptual experience. However, in natural viewing, perceptual experience with faces is accompanied by increased knowledge about the person and the context in which they are encountered.
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