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Remembering Faces
Forgetting the face of someone we have met once seems normal compared to being able to remember the face of someone after years.
- A Super-Recognizer is a person with a gift of remembering a face for a long time, often infinitely. These kinds of people were discovered in 2009, and make up about 2 percent of the population.
- On the other end of the spectrum are the prosopagnosics (people with face blindness) who cannot recognize even familiar faces like their own face.
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- The super-recognizers seem to have a genetic component according to research on identical and fraternal twins, making this ability bend towards heritability.
- Extroverts seem to have a higher facial recognition ability, and people with less social interaction have poor facial recogn...
- Like an essential app on our smartphones, face recognition has been an important, often crucial ability for our ancestors, with the eyes playing a big role.
- Evolution or nature has placed a special significance on facial recognition for most of us, with a dedicated region of the br...
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- Daniel Goleman’s book about emotional intelligence (1995) promoted the idea that the ability to understand and employ emotional information is an important skill.
- Part of that is expressing our emotions (through writing, body language, or talking with other people), and studies sho...
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Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world.
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