I was just going over some old transcripts of Simon Cole citing that Individualization is not scientifically supported and it made me think of some interesting research I had come across earlier in the year and thought I'd share it.
Specifically, it has to do with the High Resolution fMRI selectivity of the fusiform face area and the brains of experts in non-facial individuation. Individuation being the word used by the perception sciences to describe the ability to discriminate an individual from a group of like things.
It comes out of the Object Perception Lab at University of Vanderbilt in Tenessee
http://gauthier.psy.vanderbilt.edu/
Here's a link to the paper specifically (although there's a link to all the papers on their publications tab)
Here's a link to a BBC Science in Action podcast where she discusses the paper (it starts at 10:18)