Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans; non-human primates innately exhibit this ability too. Recognizing facial features ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has found that rhesus monkeys, like humans, recognize face-like traits in inanimate objects. In their study published in the ...

Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

Preservation of vision should be a cherished, lifetime goal. So let’s talk high velocity projectiles -- or their avoidance -- chemical splashes, particle fragments and creepy crawlers. “What is that ...

A cheeky smile from a burnt piece of toast or a sullen stare from the "eyes" of a wall socket — when you start to see faces in inanimate objects, you may be experiencing "pareidolia," a phenomenon in ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...