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Imagine waiting for incoming passengers at the arrival gate at the airport. Your visual system can easily find faces and identify whether one of them is your friend's. As with other tasks that our ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Smithsonian invites educators to ...

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