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Published online 25 January 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000127-5
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Facing facts
Eleanor Lawrence finds out how birdwatchers have helped brain researchers settle a long-running debate.
Is there something very special about humans' extraordinary ability to recognize individual human faces compared with other objects? This is the question Isabel Gauthier of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, and colleagues have been exploring with the help of expert birdwatchers and car-spotters.
'I know your face, but I can't remember your name'.
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