The brain can recognize familiar faces in less than a second.
✓ TRUE FACT
Brain responses to faces can occur within ~170 milliseconds (the famous N170 signal), and recognition can happen in a fraction of a second. That speed reflects specialized face-processing networks in the temporal lobe. Your brain is basically running face-ID at near real-time.
🤯 "The brain can recognize familiar faces in less than a second. Handy, unless it’s your ex."