Editor’s Note (10/5/18): From a relatively young age, Doris Tsao distinguished herself as a leading scientist investigating the way the brain recognizes faces. On October 4 the John D. and Catherine T ...

Doris Tsao launched her career deciphering faces — but for a few weeks in September, she struggled to control the expression on her own. Tsao had just won a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award, an ...

A Caltech team has deciphered the way we identify faces, re-creating what the brain sees from its electrical activity Our brains have evolved to recognize and remember faces. As infants, one of the ...