Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Let's say you're at a party or walking down the street and suddenly out of a sea of passing faces one of them lights up. Someone is looking right at you, waving, saying hello, they're happy to see you and you have no idea who this person is. Some of us are really good at recognizing faces. Others of us are not. To explain why, here's our social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam from NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Marty Doerschlag has a super power that I would love to have. He can remember a face forever. MARTY DOERSCHLAG: If I spend about 30 seconds looking at somebody, I will remember their face for years and years and years. VEDANTAM: His wife Julie says one time they were in Las Vegas sitting down for dinner at a restaurant and Marty looked at the waiter. JULIE DOERSCHLAG: He's like, oh, you waited on me in Columbus, Ohio, in X year. The guy just froze. And then he's like, oh, yeah - and I don't
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