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Face Recognition

Posted 31 Oct, 2005 at 13:52 by blue in /Science | Permanent link

I came across an interesting little test (about 15 minutes to do it... including 10 minutes of breaks) that demonstrates how well you remember faces and talks about the effects of sleep loss and aging on this type of memory.

How did you score? I found it exceptionally easy and assume everyone else will to, but I'm curious if anyone finds it hard?

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I did about average... but then, I've known for a while that I'm not terrifically good at facial recognition outside of the context of my life.

This is why I was put off of Mission Impossible: 2 within the first five minutes: the opening sequence only works if one has the ability to recognize Tom Cruise on sight, and this is an ability which (happily) I lack.
Posted 2005/10/31 14:08:02 by Matt
I've got a similar problem with recognizing people in photos...luckily this was the same photo that you were being asked to recognize so there were lots of cues (like clothing) that helped out. I scored about average on both. Would be interesting if they showed photos of the same people in similar poses but with different clothes...I suspect I would do very poorly, but I'm curious how other people would score.
Posted 2005/11/1 10:42:50 by Wendy
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