Medically reviewed by Candice W. Jones, MD FAAP Key Points Babies start to recognize familiar faces within a few weeks and ...

A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

Do you never forget a face? Are you one of those people who can spot the same nameless extras across different TV programs and adverts? Are you the family member always called on to identify or match ...

Cambridge University researchers have trained eight sheep to recognize faces. LONDON -- Researchers at Cambridge University have trained eight female Welsh mountain sheep to recognize four celebrities ...

Monkeys recognise each other by comparing faces to an average stored in their brains, not by memorising what every monkey looks like, scientists say. And that probably also goes for people, explaining ...

Learn more about the canine temporal lobe and how it helps your dog recognize your face.

According to the World Health Organization, globally, infectious disease is a leading cause of death among children. Furthermore, children are more likely than adults to contract infectious illnesses.

Forgetting a face does feel like a small social failure. Meeting someone again and realizing their name escapes you is one thing, but not recognizing their face at all feels worse, as if you’ve erased ...

I recently received a note from a dog trainer that I first met at a meeting of the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP). She wrote, in part: "I was teaching a beginners dog ...

The ability to recognize faces is deeply ingrained in humans – as well as some of our distant, socially oriented primate cousins. Indeed, there appear to be regions in the brain – notably, a spot at ...