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  As we learn more things to recognize, some brain regions get bigger; others shrink.

Face recognition and place recognition are both critical for everyday interactions, and they both depend on specialized regions of the brain. Neuroscientists generally suspect that as these regions develop, facial and place recognition improve. If so, there may be a lot of room for improvement. A recent study published in Science found that the parts of the brain that are associated with face and place recognition continue to develop well into adulthood, long after most of the brain's architecture is in place.