When two fields collide: Identifying "super-recognisers" for neuropsychological and forensic face recognition research.

ABSTRACT: In the last decade, a novel individual differences approach has emerged across the face recognition literature. While the field has long been concerned with prosopagnosia (the inability to recognise facial identity), it has more recently become clear that there are vast differences in face recognition ability within the typical population. "Super-recognisers" are those individuals purported to reside at the very top of this spectrum. On one hand, these people are of interest to cognitive neuropsychologists who are motivated to explore the commonality of the face recognition continuum, whereas on the other hand, researchers from the forensic face matching field evaluate the implementation of super-recognisers into real-world police and security settings. These two rather different approache

SUBMITTER: Bate S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531948 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature