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Nature Neuroscience 11, 862–864 (1 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn0808-862

Face to face with cortex

Chris I Baker

Faces are everywhere, and we are very good at extracting all sorts of information (such as identity, emotional state, direction of attention, etc.) from them. This effortlessness belies the difficulty of the tasks, as faces are complex stimuli, with a great deal of similarity between different faces.