Since the 1970s there has been a continuing interest in how people recognise familiar faces
(Bruce,; Ellis,). This work has complemented investigations of how unfamiliar faces are …

Abstract Information for identifying a human face can be found both in the invariant structure
of features and in idiosyncratic movements and gestures. When both kinds of information are …

Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion
recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now
recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public …

Some dictionaries still define cognition as the power or faculty of apprehending and
knowing, a usage that harks back to the days when philosophers attributed all mental …

We describe a new test for unfamiliar face matching, the Glasgow Face Matching Test
(GFMT). Viewers are shown pairs of faces, photographed in full-face view but with different …

Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …

Research in face recognition has tended to focus on discriminating between individuals, or
“telling people apart.” It has recently become clear that it is also necessary to understand …

It is difficult to match two images of the same unfamiliar face, even under good conditions.
Here, we show that there are large individual differences on unfamiliar face matching …

Face recognition is used to prove identity across a wide variety of settings. Despite this,
research consistently shows that people are typically rather poor at matching faces to …