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Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

10 August 2017

Two newly identified brain areas reveal how rhesus macaques recognise the difference between intimately familiar faces and faces that the monkeys know less well
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

21 July 2017

It turns out our eardrums seem to change position in coordination with our eye movements. This may help our brains link what we see and hear

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