Can identical twins tell themselves apart in photos?
Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins
Most people spot their own face faster than anyone else’s, but identical twins lose that superpower when their twin is in the picture.
Ig Nobel 2017
Identical twins looked at photos that slowly morphed between their own face, their twin’s face and a stranger’s face, and had to say whose face they were seeing.
Normally we are speedy experts at recognising ourselves. Identical twins, though, showed no special advantage for their own face over their twin’s. Even the twins themselves sometimes need a name tag.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which one of us is me after all?