Brad Duchaine

You know it, baby.

The one you can trust, even if she has to bend the rules.

Things aren't always as black and white as they seem.

To crack a case.

This is how I get things done.

Emmy-winning actress Kathy Bates is Matlock.

It's quite rare.

And it is wild.

I mean, I've been studying this condition for years, and yet I'm still amazed by the stories we hear from people.

So these are individuals who, when they look at a face, they will see some aspect of that face distorted.

And sometimes it's the feature's shape.

Sometimes it's the position of the features on the face.

Other times it might be the texture of the face or even the color of the skin.

Yeah, so we've got a network of what we call face-selective areas in the brain, and when there's a glitch within this network, then you can get face distortions.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

So if I were to put you into an fMRI scanner and we were measuring the activity in your brain, we showed you faces, we showed you objects, places, things like that.

We would find something like 12 to 14 areas within your brain that show really strong responses to faces.

and little or no response to other categories.

And then people go in and will record from neurons within those areas, and they find that the neurons within those patches respond to faces and faces only.

And so this is a network that's specialized for processing faces, and so we use this network to figure out who we're seeing around us, how they're feeling, what they're interested in in terms of what they're attending, and all the other information that we get from the face.