Face-selective brain region continues to grow in adulthood

New findings challenge our understanding of how the brain matures

Faces are important to us. From the moment we are are born, we prefer to look at faces than at other, inanimate objects, and, being social animals, we encounter faces every day of our lives. The face is the first thing we look to when identifying other people; faces also convey emotions, informing us of peoples' mood, and from them we can usually determine a person's sex and, sometimes, roughly how old they are. Eye movements can also reveal to us something about another person's intentions.

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