• 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 brain known as fusiform face area used only for computing the faces, mainly through the eyes.
• People who are face blind tend to have social anxiety and avoid the eye region of people while looking at them.

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 ...