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Is Your Brain Glitching? Why You Keep Seeing Familiar Faces in Strangers!

An author explores their lifelong experience of 'recognizing' strangers, consulting experts and undergoing facial recognition tests. They discover they are a 'borderline super-recognizer' and delve into conditions like hyperfamiliarity for faces, revealing the complex interplay of memory, emotion, and perception in how our brains process faces.

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I Kept Seeing My Dead Grandma in Strangers – Here's What Science Says About My Brain

The author explores her lifelong experience of seeing familiar faces in strangers, leading to a deep dive into the science of facial recognition. She undergoes tests, discovers she's a 'borderline super-recognizer,' and learns about conditions like hyperfamiliarity for faces (HFF), revealing the complex interplay of memory, emotion, and perception in how we recognize others.