Neuroscience
How the Brain Reads Faces
Brain regions that process faces reveal deep insights into the neural mechanisms of vision
Doris Y. Tsao is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is also director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience at Caltech. In 2018 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Credit: Nick Higgins
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