The latest news from the Face Lab
26th February 2021. Judith’s research is in the news!
Jud’s PhD project about Prosopagnosia in children has captured the attention of the media. Stories about her project can be found in the Edinburgh Evening News, the Irish News, STV News, and Yahoo! among many others. Well done Jud! We can’t wait to see how your project goes!
19th November 2020. Dan and Peter’s Masked Face Matching Paper is Published
Dan and Peter’s paper about masked face matching was published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications this morning. Check out the paper here. You can find a press release about the paper here.
28th October 2020. Experimental Psychology Society Grant to Steve Langton
Congratulations to Steve, who has been awarded £3.5k to investigate individual differences in holistic processing. Well done Steve!
1st October 2020. Judith Lowes Joins the Lab!
Welcome to Judith Lowes, who begins her PhD in the face lab today! Jud’s project will investigate the underpinnings of face recognition difficulties in children and use the findings to design and test new training interventions that may help to improve children’s ability to recognise faces.
31st August 2020. In an Era of Face Masks, We’re All a Little More Face Blind
Dan and Peter’s latest pre-print “Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces” was covered in a New York Times article about how faces masks are posing additional challenges to face recognition. Check it out here
20th March 2017. Can science produce better passport control officers?
Vicky, Anna and Peter published an article in The Conversation, discussing how the latest scientific findings could be used to improve border security. Check it out here