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Negotiating a crisis

All in the Mind

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Are You Good at Remembering People's Names?

Dr. James Darna, psychologist at the University of New South Wales has done a new study to try to work out how people are doing it because it is a very special kind of skill. They represent the top 2% of the population in their face recognition ability. Your ability to remember faces isn't related to your ability to memorize numbers and dresses and that kind of thing. And so that tells us that face recognition itself. It's its own unique cognitive ability.

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