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ArticleiScience2026

Demonstrating the Super-Recognizer advantage for law enforcement.

Meike Ramon, Matthew J Vowels

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Article in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Meike RamonApplied Face Cognition Lab, Business School, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
Matthew J VowelsApplied Face Cognition Lab, Business School, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

So-called Super-Recognizers (SRs)-individuals with exceptional face recognition ability-are increasingly being deployed by international police agencies. Currently, however, empirical evidence supporting their utility for law enforcement stems from a single study based on a small forensic stimulus set and a predominantly civilian sample. Here, on the basis of data collected from within the entire cohort of ∼18,000 Berlin Police officers employed in 2021, we report the performance of officers identified as SRs, using previously published lab-based criteria under operationally relevant, highly challenging 1:

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cognitive neuroscienceinterdisciplinary application studiespsychology

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PMID42491494
PMCPMC13378012

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