And all bar one are open access! Please readers let me know if there are more studies on supers out there.
Bobak A, Parris B, Gregory N, Bennetts R, Bate S (2016) Eye-Movement Strategies in Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super” Face Recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Posted online: 02 Mar 2016. DOI:10.1080/17470218.2016.1161059
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2016.1161059
The above paper interesting as it apparently supports the idea that developmental prosopagnosia is a heterogeneous condition and at least the most severe cases are not simply the bottom end of a spectrum of ability. The authors do seem to regard supers as the top end of a spectrum though. Researchers also found that supers and able controls spent more time looking at noses, a finding which I think I recall from another study. It makes sense to me as I feel that great face recognition ability is an automatic and involuntary process (like synaesthesia) that involves perception of the face as a whole “landscape”.
Bobak AK, Dowsett AJ, Bate S (2016) Solving the Border Control Problem: Evidence of Enhanced Face Matching in Individuals with Extraordinary Face Recognition Skills. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148148
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0148148
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735453/
Bobak AK, Hancock PJB, Bate S. Super-recognisers in Action: Evidence from Face-matching and Face Memory Tasks. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2016;30:81–91. doi: 10.1002/acp.3170
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3170/epdf
Robertson DJ, Noyes E, Dowsett AJ, Jenkins R, Burton AM (2016) Face Recognition by Metropolitan Police Super-Recognisers. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0150036. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150036
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150036
Anna Bobak and Dr Sarah Bate have been busy!
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One more for you!
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945216301186
Regards,
Anna
Thanks for keeping me in the loop, Anna. You really are interested in supers, aren’t you? This research report looks very interesting!
I’ve gone back to uni and I had a few thoughts about my own experiences of face perception while reading a textbook by Jamie Ward. Sadly, I’m snowed-under with study and don’t have time to do my ideas justice in this blog.
I guess I am, the last 4 years of my life were spent on studying them! I’m submitting my PhD next week, viva to come – who knows what’s next.
That’s always the thing, isn’t it? So many ideas, so little time. I hope you’re keeping well and all the best at university.