Car fanciers’ brains experience perceptual traffic jam when trying to identify autos and faces at the same time: “Last year, she published work showing that as people are trained as experts on identifying novel, computer-generated objects, they begin to recognize them holistically. But these studies left unanswered the question of whether the same neural circuitry was involved in processing faces, birds and automobiles or whether the faces and objects were processed by different neural networks that are intermingled in the same small area in the brain.”

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