Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a very real medical condition in which an afflicted individual is unable to distinguish facial characteristics of individuals, including friends, family, or even ...

More recently, the UNSW Face Test can screen for super-recognizers (Dunn et al., 2020). Tests administered online or in a laboratory setting, though, may differ substantially from “real-world" ...

When I was in my mid-20s, I spotted my grandma through the window of a coffee shop. I was dumbstruck – she had passed away the year before. I stared for a moment, then reminded myself it couldn’t be ...

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A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that same face out of a grainy photo. For a small group of people known as super ...

What is it that makes a super recognizer – someone with extraordinary face recognition abilities – better at remembering faces than the rest of us? According to new research carried out by cognitive ...