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What's In A Face

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Is Your Super-Recogniser a Crime-Abiding Experience?

She got in touch with a researcher in Australia who confirmed that she was indeed a super recognizer. I ended up visiting the lab in Sydney, and they put some sort of sensor detector so they saw where my eye movements, how it worked when I was exposed to a face. And it's not that I pinpoint on one feature. I would not focus on the eyes or nose or mouth or the shape of the face. It's just the hole, the face is a hole, leaves kind of an imprint in my head. So have you ever found your ability useful then? Other than fun party trick? Yeah, I mean,  I caught a shoplifter because we had a

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