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Our understanding of faces reflects both our perception of their facial features and our social knowledge. This interaction of stereotypes and vision can be observed in brain signals in fusiform gyrus and orbitofrontal cortex.

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Figure 1: Mapping stereotype responses to brain activity.

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  1. Martin N. Hebart and Chris I. Baker are in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

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Hebart, M., Baker, C. Facing up to stereotypes. Nat Neurosci 19, 763–764 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4309

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