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SUBMITTER: Bobak AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735453 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bobak Anna Katarzyna AK Dowsett Andrew James AJ Bate Sarah S
PloS one 20160201 2
Photographic identity documents (IDs) are commonly used despite clear evidence that unfamiliar face matching is a difficult and error-prone task. The current study set out to examine the performance of seven individuals with extraordinary face recognition memory, so called "super recognisers" (SRs), on two face matching tasks resembling border control identity checks. In Experiment 1, the SRs as a group outperformed control participants on the "Glasgow Face Matching Test", and some case-by-case ...[more]