#super recognizer

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Sorry for posting so much about Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein", but I have a hyperfixation. Here is a funny thing I noticed today. I read articles about the film and one stated, "Jacob Elordi is unrecognizable in his role as Frankenstein's creature, [because of all the make-up]."

And I only thought, "Wait, what do you mean? Unrecognizable? Of course he is recognizable." And then I remembered that I am a super recognizer. I can recognize faces even if they have been changed in some way. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser

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The super recognizer is at it again: Started watching the police procedural/horror film "Body Cam" and noticed an actor whom I had seen before somewhere. Or so I thought. I looked him up - Nat Wolff.

Turns out, I haven't seen him before, but his brother Alex Wolff, who plays a part in the horror film "Hereditary". I recognized Alex because of the family likeness, he looks quite similar to his brother.

If you wonder what super recognizing is - it's the ability to very distinctively recognize and remember faces, sometimes, as in this case, even in close relatives who look similar to each other.

Super recognizing can also mean that you remember the faces of people whom you have seen a long time ago, and even if they have changed for instance their hair style or have aged.

Super recognizing is, as many things, on a spectrum.

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Watching actors as a super recognizer...

I am a super recognizer, which means I can very easily recognize faces, even if time or something else changes them a bit (gaining or losing weight, different hairstyles, wigs, beards, coloured contact lens, wearing sun glasses, aging or something else).

For me, it's also a joy to watch actors and actresses doing their thing and recognizing them in each role, their facial expressions. Every one of them has their own style, and if I watch somebody in several different roles, I also recognize several facial expressions which are unique to them, because every face and it's movements are unique. An example I have for this is Tom Hiddleston, I have watched almost all of his films and shows and two few theatre plays for ca. 14 years now. For instance, he has a unique way of raising his eyebrows in specific situations when he is acting and he can also portray moments of vulnerability very well, with micro expressions of his eyes. A different actor would of course look completely different in the same scene and their micro facial expressions would look quite different. And of course, this also depends to some extend of the choices of the director.

[qluemagazine]

Super Recognizer 

You’ve probably heard about face blindness, an incurable neurological disorder that impairs someone’s ability to recognize faces even those of family or friends. It affects about 2.5 percent of the world’s population, or 1 in every 50 people. At the other end of the spectrum are “super recognizers.” These gifted individuals can remember people they’ve met or seen only briefly, as well as people…

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[principleofplenitude]

Soft-spoken and gentle-mannered, Constable Collins carries a baton and pepper spray, but no gun. His weapon is his memory: Facial recognition software managed to identify one suspect of the 4,000 captured by security cameras during the London riots. Constable Collins identified 180. “Computers are no match for the super recognizers,” said Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, head of the Central Forensic Image Team at Scotland Yard and mastermind of the squad.

“London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat With a Facebook of the Mind” from New York Times

[mothernaturenetwork]

Believe it or not, some people can't recognize their own face in the mirror.

Think you might be face blind? (1 out of 50 people is.)

There are also people who can recognize a stranger they glimpsed in the subway decades ago.

Suspect you could be a super recognizer? (Only 1% of the population is.)

Take the tests and find out.

[mothernaturenetwork]

How easily can you identify these well-known people? It can be difficult to understand how someone can see a familiar face and not recognize it, so Brad Duchaine demonstrates it by taking famous faces and turning them upside down. It's just a taste of what it's like to have prosopagnosia, or what's more commonly called face blindness. People with prosopagnosia, an incurable neurological disorder, often can't recognize their family and friends — or even their own reflections.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are "super recognizers" who can remember people they’ve seen only briefly even after years have passed. Are you face blind? Are you a super recognizer? We've got tests to help you find out.

[raunaballecter]

So I walk by the TV, which is set to 60 Minutes, and they're talking about "super recognizers" (whatever that is) and all I can think of is: