The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers

E Noyes, JP Davis, N Petrov… - Royal Society open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

DJ Carragher, PJB Hancock - Cognitive research: principles and …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Are face masks a problem for emotion recognition? Not when the whole body is visible

P Ross, E George - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The rise of the novel COVID-19 virus has made face masks commonplace items around the
globe. Recent research found that face masks significantly impair emotion recognition on …

Face memory and facial expression recognition are both affected by wearing disposable surgical face masks

M Ventura, A Palmisano, F Innamorato, G Tedesco… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Springer
Faces are fundamental stimuli for social interactions since they provide significant
information about people's identity and emotional states. With the outburst of the COVID-19 …

Face masks versus sunglasses: Limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits

RJ Bennetts, P Johnson Humphrey, P Zielinska… - Cognitive Research …, 2022 - Springer
Some research indicates that face masks impair identification and other judgements such as
trustworthiness. However, it is unclear whether those effects have abated over time as …

Multiple-image arrays in face matching tasks with and without memory

KL Ritchie, RSS Kramer, M Mileva, A Sandford… - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that exposure to within-person variability facilitates face
learning. A different body of work has examined potential benefits of providing multiple …

New insights on real-world human face recognition.

C Devue, A Wride, GM Grimshaw - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans are supposedly expert in face recognition. Because of limitations in existing
research paradigms, little is known about how faces become familiar in the real world, or the …

The effect of surgical masks on the featural and configural processing of emotions

N Maiorana, M Dini, B Poletti, S Tagini… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of surgical masks became widespread.
However, they occlude an important part of the face and make it difficult to decode and …

Making a spectacle of yourself: The effect of glasses and sunglasses on face perception

DL Graham, KL Ritchie - Perception, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigated the effect of wearing glasses and sunglasses on the perception of social
traits from faces and on face matching. Participants rated images of people wearing no …

The effect of face masks on forensic face matching: An individual differences study

AJ Estudillo, P Hills, HK Wong - Journal of Applied Research in Memory …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the forensic face matching task, observers are presented with two unfamiliar faces and
must determine whether they depict the same identity. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, some …