We don't recognize people anymore. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University say face masks are lowering the brain's ability to properly recognize and distinguish different faces. "For those of you who don't always recognize a friend or acquaintance wearing a mask, you are not alone," according to the researchers Prof. Tzvi Ganel, head of the Laboratory for Visual Perception and Action at the BGU Department of Psychology, and Prof. Erez Freud, who earned his Ph.D. at BGU and is now a faculty member at York University in Toronto, Ontario. The success rate of identifying someone wearing a mask was r...