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 ...

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 ...

What is it that makes a super recognizer—someone with extraordinary face recognition abilities—better at remembering faces than the rest of us? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence ...

Are you one of those people who are always mistaking others for someone else? Or, worse yet, do you have trouble recognizing faces altogether? You are certainly not alone. In fact, the average person ...

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 ...

Yenny Seo is what's called a super-recognizer; she can remember almost every face she's ever seen. It's a neurological quirk that only 1 to 2% of the world has. But facial recognition has never been ...

The author at age 6 and age 38. Could you have recognized this face after 30 years? Source: Ainsley Hawthorn A manager at a local bookstore stopped to ask if I needed any help, then paused. “Is your ...

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 ...

Super recognizers excel because their eyes lock onto key facial features, looking at the right parts at the right moment.

"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.