YOUR brain’s ability to identify familiar faces has an interesting quirk. While the right side of the brain recognises other people, it’s the left side that knows you’re you.
Experiments show that our right brain is far better at recognising familiar faces such as friends or celebrities than our left brain. But according to David Turk at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, it hasn’t been clear which brain hemisphere recognises its owner most easily.
To find out, he and his team enlisted the help of a “split-brain” patient, “JW”. His two brain hemispheres can’t communicate because the connections between…
