A woman with a striped rainbow light on her face looks into the camera. The mouth is closed by light, the concept of silence, loneliness and imagination Do you remember the face of any stranger who ...

A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This release is a slight modification of a release originally distributed by the University of Wollongong on September 1. Super-recognizers never forget a face. They can catch a glimpse ...

LONDON – Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He’s a “super recognizer,” and that’s giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Scotland Yard. Several years ago, for example, London police ...

We are in the UK. The investigation into an armed robbery has been at a standstill for a long time. The only things the police have to go on is some poor-quality video footage and a few tentative ...

People often say that they never forget a face, but for some people, this claim might actually be true. So-called super recognizers are said to possess exceptional face recognition abilities, often ...

Super-recognizers never forget a face. They need to focus on it only once to instantly recognize it again, even if they encounter it years later, and sometimes even if they see only one feature, such ...

"The Return of Martin Guerre" is a film based on the true story of an impostor who comes to a small village and pretends to be someone he is not. Source: Photo credit: George Pierre/Bridgeman Images.