Science Alert  November 3, 2023 It has long been understood that the ventral visual stream of the human brain processes features of simulated human faces. Recently, specificity for real and interactive faces has been reported in lateral and dorsal visual streams, raising new questions regarding neural coding of interactive faces and lateral and dorsal face-processing mechanisms. Researchers at Yale University compared neural activity during two live interactive face-to-face conditions where facial features and tasks remained constant while the social contexts (in-person or on-line conditions) were varied. Current models of face processing do not predict differences in these two conditions as […]