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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34148| Appears in Collections: | Psychology Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training |
| Author(s): | Carragher, Daniel J Towler, Alice Mileva, Viktoria R White, David Hancock, Peter J B |
| Contact Email: | p.j.b.hancock@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Date Deposited: | 8-Apr-2022 |
| Citation: | Carragher DJ, Towler A, Mileva VR, White D & Hancock PJB (2022) Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (1), Art. No.: 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x |
| Abstract: | To slow the spread of COVID-19, many people now wear face masks in public. Face masks impair our ability to identify faces, which can cause problems for professional staff who identify offenders or members of the public. Here, we investigate whether performance on a masked face matching task can be improved by training participants to compare diagnostic facial features (the ears and facial marks)—a validated training method that improves matching performance for unmasked faces. We show this brief diagnostic feature training, which takes less than two minutes to complete, improves matching performance for masked faces by approximately 5%. A control training course, which was unrelated to face identification, had no effect on matching performance. Our findings demonstrate that comparing the ears and facial marks is an effective means of improving face matching performance for masked faces. These findings have implications for professions that regularly perform face identification. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x |
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