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We're Not As Good At Remembering Faces As We Think We Are
![Shankar Vedantam, NPR's social science correspondent and host of the <a href="http://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain" link-data="{"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"Hidden Brain","target":"NEW","url":"http://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain","_id":"0000018f-a5f6-d172-abdf-adf7c2390000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"0000018f-a5f6-d172-abdf-adf7c2390001","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">Hidden Brain</a> podcast, explains why some of us are really good at recognizing faces and others are not.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7de8139/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4060x3045+0+0/resize/840x630!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F11%2F02%2Fgettyimages-607358443-f8bd9f8fcfce4ce75daf050402493413535942ac.jpg)
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Shankar Vedantam is the host and creator of Hidden Brain. The Hidden Brain podcast receives more than three million downloads per week. The Hidden Brain radio show is distributed by NPR and featured on nearly 400 public radio stations around the United States.