ArticlePloS one2016
Solving the Border Control Problem: Evidence of Enhanced Face Matching in Individuals with Extraordinary Face Recognition Skills.
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- The effects of contextual bias on face recognition decisions.Journal of forensic sciences · 2025Article
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- Improving forensic perpetrator identification with Super-Recognizers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Face memory and facial expression recognition are both affected by wearing disposable surgical face masks.Cognitive processing · 2023Article
- Selecting police super-recognisers.PloS one · 2023Article
- Identifying criminals: No biasing effect of criminal context on recalled threat.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- The Oxford Face Matching Test: A non-biased test of the full range of individual differences in face perception.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- Forensic facial examiners versus super-recognizers: Evaluating behavior beyond accuracy.Applied cognitive psychology · 2022Article
- When two fields collide: Identifying "super-recognisers" for neuropsychological and forensic face recognition research.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021Review
- The effect of implicit racial bias on recognition of other-race faces.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Visual search performance in 'CCTV' and mobile phone-like video footage.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Face processing in police service: the relationship between laboratory-based assessment of face processing abilities and performance in a real-world identity matching task.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Psychophysical profiles in super-recognizers.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Photographic identity documents (IDs) are commonly used despite clear evidence that unfamiliar face matching is a difficult and error-prone task. The current study set out to examine the performance of seven individuals with extraordinary face recognition memory, so called "super recognisers" (SRs), on two face matching tasks resembling border control identity checks. In Experiment 1, the SRs as a group outperformed control participants on the "Glasgow Face Matching Test", and some case-by-case comparisons also reached significance. In Experiment 2, a perceptually difficult face matching task was used: the "Models Face Matching Test". Once again, SRs outperformed controls both on group and mostly in case-by-case analyses. These findings suggest that SRs are considerably better at face matching than typical perceivers, and would make proficient personnel for border control agencies.
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