"The Return of Martin Guerre" is a film based on the true story of an impostor who comes to a small village and pretends to be someone he is not. Source: Photo credit: George Pierre/Bridgeman Images.

Some people are so good with faces that there's a name for them—super-recognizers. And a new study using eye-tracking technology has given us some insights into how they do it. Subscribe to our ...

What is it that makes a super recognizer – someone with extraordinary face recognition abilities – better at remembering faces than the rest of us? According to new research carried out by cognitive ...

A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that same face out of a grainy photo. For a small group of people known as super ...