Super-recognizer’s never forget a face
May 22, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Mental Health, Psychology
How good are you at recognizing faces?
Would you be able to recognize, say for example, a waitress that served you once five years ago? Or someone at the checkout counter at the grocery store you visited while on holiday in, say, California a decade ago?
If the answer is no, then you are like most of the population that sits in the middle of the face recognition spectrum.
But if the answer is yes, then you are probably a ’super-recognizer’.
It’s a term coined by Harvard researchers following a recent study they conducted on face recognition. They administered standardized face recognition tests to a group of participants and discovered that some people scored way above average on these tests.
Of course, there are also, around 2% of the population, those who can never remember a face.
Want to know where you sit on the face recognition spectrum?
Check out these fun face recognition tests.
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