{"592769":{"#nid":"592769","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Facial recognition changes a wasp\u2019s brain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBelieve it or not, a\u0026nbsp;certain species of paper wasp is believed to have facial recognition ability. How exactly is that ability reflected in the\u0026nbsp;wasps\u0026#39; brains? That\u0026#39;s what \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/ali-berens\u0022\u003EAli Berens\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences set out to explore in her new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/content\/220\/12\/2149\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E. By running paper wasps\u0026nbsp;through some recognition exercises of faces and patterns\u0026nbsp;and then studying the DNA in their brains, Berens and coworkers found more than 200 genes that were active during facial recognition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-06-16 16:39:52","changed_gmt":"2017-06-16 20:00:59","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"C-130H aircraft","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/blog\/science-ticker\/facial-recognition-changes-wasps-brain","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592771":{"id":"592771","type":"image","title":"Ali Berens","body":null,"created":"1497631253","gmt_created":"2017-06-16 16:40:53","changed":"1497631253","gmt_changed":"2017-06-16 16:40:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225935","name":"Ali Berens.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ali%20Berens.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ali%20Berens.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66138,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Ali%20Berens.jpg?itok=3Ug1_vfN"}}},"media_ids":["592771"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"174711","name":"Ali Berens"},{"id":"174712","name":"paper wasps"},{"id":"174713","name":"facial recognition"},{"id":"1041","name":"dna"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}