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Science 3 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5761, pp. 617 - 618
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123983
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NEUROSCIENCE:
What's in a Face?

Nancy Kanwisher

Is the primate brain a generalized machine that can tackle a wide array of problems or a collection of modules, each designed for a specific task? New results suggest a modular organization, at least for specialized cognition.

The author is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 79 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: ngk{at}mit.edu

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