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The Region Of Face Recognition
- Like an essential app on our smartphones, face recognition has been an important, often crucial ability for our ancestors, with the eyes playing a big role.
- Evolution or nature has placed a special significance on facial recognition for most of us, with a dedicated region of the brain known as fusiform face area used only for computing the faces, mainly through the eyes.
- People who are face blind tend to have social anxiety and avoid the eye region of people while looking at them.
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- Daniel Goleman’s book about emotional intelligence (1995) promoted the idea that the ability to understand and employ emotional information is an important skill.
- Part of that is expressing our emotions (through writing, body language, or talking with other people), and studies sho...
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Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world.
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