A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Shai Gabay (Head, The Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making) and researchers from Carnegie Mellon sheds light on the evolution of complex cognition. The research suggests that primitive brain regions, collectively called the subcortex, are also involved in ‘higher’ cognitive processes such as facial recognition. “This implies that humans share this ability with other species,” Gabay explains. “Mammals, reptiles, fish, and frogs have primitive subcortical structures, which developed hundreds of millions of years ago.” The research findings have been published in a series of articles including Neuropsychologia.  READ MORE IN HAARETZ