Individual differences and the multidimensional nature of face perception

D White, AM Burton - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Diverse types of expertise in facial recognition

A Towler, JD Dunn, S Castro Martínez, R Moreton… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Facial recognition errors can jeopardize national security, criminal justice, public safety and
civil rights. Here, we compare the most accurate humans and facial recognition technology …

Flexible use of facial features supports face identity processing.

JD Dunn, A Towler, B Popovic… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
People prioritize diagnostic features in classification tasks. However, it is not clear whether
this priority is fixed or is flexibly applied depending on the specific classification decision, or …

[HTML][HTML] Super recognizers: Increased sensitivity or reduced biases? Insights from serial dependence

F Marini, M Manassi, M Ramon - Journal of Vision, 2024 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Super recognizers (SRs) are people that exhibit a naturally occurring superiority for
processing facial identity. Despite the increase of SR research, the mechanisms underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Selecting police super-recognisers

JD Dunn, A Towler, RI Kemp, D White - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
People vary in their ability to recognise faces. These individual differences are consistent
over time, heritable and associated with brain anatomy. This implies that face identity …

Looking at faces in the wild

VPL Varela, A Towler, RI Kemp, D White - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Faces are key to everyday social interactions, but our understanding of social attention is
based on experiments that present images of faces on computer screens. Advances in …

Holistic and featural processing's link to face recognition varies by individual and task

BQZ Leong, AJ Estudillo, AM Hussain Ismail - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
While it is generally accepted that holistic processing facilitates face recognition, recent
studies suggest that poor recognition might also arise from imprecise perception of local …

Diverse routes to expertise in facial recognition

A Towler, JD Dunn, SC Martínez, R Moreton, F Eklöf… - 2021 - osf.io
Facial recognition errors jeopardize national security, criminal justice, public safety and civil
rights. Here, we compare the most accurate humans and facial recognition technology in a …

Information sampling differences supporting superior face identity processing ability

JD Dunn, S Miellet, D White - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
Face recognition in humans is often cited as a model example of perceptual expertise that is
characterized by an increased tendency to process faces as holistic percepts. However …

[HTML][HTML] Part-based processing, but not holistic processing, predicts individual differences in face recognition abilities

PL Audette, L Côté, C Blais, J Duncan, F Gingras… - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
This study aimed to assess the roles of part-based and holistic processing for face
processing ability (FPA). A psychophysical paradigm in which the efficiency at recognizing …