According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to
become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has …

Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

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 …

Achieving the upper limits of face identification accuracy in forensic applications can
minimize errors that have profound social and personal consequences. Although forensic …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

The development of biometric applications, such as facial recognition (FR), has recently
become important in smart cities. Many scientists and engineers around the world have …

Over our species history, humans have typically lived in small groups of under a hundred
individuals. However, our face recognition abilities appear to equip us to recognize very …

The idea that most of us are good at recognizing faces permeates everyday thinking and is
widely used in the research literature. However, it is a correct characterization only of …

The recent discovery of individuals with superior face processing ability has sparked
considerable interest amongst cognitive scientists and practitioners alike. These 'Super …

Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas
composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided …