> Your brain is a structure for learning structures.
And it does so by having specialized structures.
> It doesn't need to have a built-in module for recognizing faces; it wires up a face-recognition system on the fly, from visual data.
Except it does appear to have such a special structure, the Fusiform Face Area. If it did not, people with prosopagnosia wouldn't just have problems with recognizing faces, but would have more general pattern recognition problems.
And it does so by having specialized structures.
> It doesn't need to have a built-in module for recognizing faces; it wires up a face-recognition system on the fly, from visual data.
Except it does appear to have such a special structure, the Fusiform Face Area. If it did not, people with prosopagnosia wouldn't just have problems with recognizing faces, but would have more general pattern recognition problems.