“I’m very, very good at recognizing faces,” said Kang Lee, a professor of applied psychology and human development at the University of Toronto, who studies the development of facial recognition skills in children. If he has met a person once, he said, he will recognize that person two or three More
A sample of research articles exploring the role of crowd formation in online ratings and how the composition of police lineups influences eyewitness identification. More
It’s 3 a.m. You wake up abruptly with a bad case of dry mouth. You drag yourself out of bed and begin fumbling in the dark to get a glass of water. You flip on the light switch, and there it is — a brown flash. A cockroach skitters across More
“Why Word Frequency Matters” by C. Nathan DeWall and “Variations in Face Recognition Ability: Stable, Specific, and Substantial” by Gil Einstein and Cindi May. More
A change in hairstyle, lighting, or even facial expression may alter a person’s appearance so drastically that they look like someone else. Scientists are now developing face-recognition measures that account for these variations.. More
Scientists studying the human limitations of face perception have also uncovered a population of people with a remarkable knack for placing a face — a skill now being tapped by police in London. More
