We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a moment ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a normal person, so we set out to look for it.
我们想要弄清楚大脑中到底有没有 一个特定的部分帮助人们分辨脸庞。 基于我先前提到的面容失认症的现象， 我们有理由相信， 大脑中这样的部位确实存在。 但是没有人在常人的大脑中 看见过这个部位。 所以我们开始寻找那个部位。