Do you remember the face of any stranger who passed by you today? You probably can’t, but super-recognizers can. These rare individuals can identify unfamiliar faces after a brief glimpse. And by studying them, researchers hope to understand how we recognize that a face belongs to someone we know — an important ability for a social species such as ours. [...]

Thanks to Richard Sima for his interview questions on face processing, prosopagnosia and Super-Recognizers.

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