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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