4. There is a special part of the brain just for recognizing faces.

Fusiform Face Area (FFA)

• Part of the brain but not of the visual cortex
• to recognize and identify faces faster than other objects.
• Autistic persons do not use
• the FFA to recognize faces; rather they use the normal visual cortex pathways.

Looking at where the face looks

• Eye tracking shows that we
• look at where a face looks at. This does not mean though that we pay attention
• to that area.

Look into my eyes

• Faces looking right at people
• has the greatest impact. People use mostly the eyes in order to decide if the face they are looking at is human and alive –dead or alive.
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