The recent discovery of individuals with superior face processing ability has sparked considerable interest amongst cognitive scientists and practitioners alike. These 'Super-recognizers' (SRs) offer clues to the underlying processes responsible for high levels ability. It been claimed that they can help make societies safer fairer by improving accuracy facial identity in real-world tasks, example when identifying suspects from Closed Circuit Television or performing security-critical...

Significance We addressed the open question of how human brain recognizes personally familiar faces. A dynamic visual-stimulation paradigm revealed that face recognition is achieved first and foremost in medial anterior temporal regions extended face-processing system. These regions, including amygdala, respond categorically to individual In contrast, activation posterior core face-preferential associated with amount visual information available, irrespective familiarity. Through integration...

Selective impairment of face recognition following brain damage, as in acquired prosopagnosia, may cause a dramatic loss diagnosticity the eye area and an increased reliance on mouth for identification ( Caldara et al. , 2005 ). To clarify nature this phenomenon, we measured fixation patterns case pure prosopagnosia (PS, Rossion 2003 ) during her photographs personally familiar faces (27 children kindergarten). Her age‐matched colleague served control. Consistent with previous evidence,...

Previous studies recording eye gaze during face perception have rendered somewhat inconclusive findings with respect to fixation differences between familiar and unfamiliar faces. This can be attributed a number of factors that differ across studies: the type extent familiarity faces presented, definition areas interest subject analyses, as well lack consideration for time course scan patterns. Here we sought address these issues by fixations in recognition task personally After first common...

Despite the generally accepted notion that humans are very good and fast at recognising familiar individuals from their faces, actual speed with which this fundamental brain function can be achieved remains largely unknown. Here, two groups of participants were required to respond by finger-lift when presented either a photograph personally face (classmate), or an unfamiliar one. This speeded manual go/no-go categorisation task revealed faces could categorised as early 380 ms after...

Neurotypical observers show large and reliable individual differences in gaze behavior along several semantic object dimensions. Individual toward faces has been linked to face identity processing, including that of neurotypical observers. Here, we investigated potential biases Super-Recognizers (SRs), individuals with exceptional processing skills. Ten SRs, identified a novel conservative diagnostic framework, 43 controls freely viewed 700 complex scenes depicting more than 5000 objects....

Recognizing a familiar face rapidly is fundamental human brain function. Here we used scalp EEG to determine the minimal time needed classify as personally or unfamiliar. Go (familiar) and no-go (unfamiliar) responses elicited clear differential waveforms from 210 msec onward, this difference being first observed at right occipito-temporal electrode sites. Similar but delayed (by about 40 msec) were when go response required unfamiliar rather than faces, in second group of participants. In...

Recent investigations of individual differences have demonstrated striking variability in performance both within the same subprocess face cognition (e.g. perception), but also between two different subprocesses (i.e. perception versus recognition ) that are assessed using tasks (face matching memory ). Such and individuals laboratory tests raise practical challenges. This applies particular to development screening for selection personnel real-world settings where faces routinely processed,...

Abstract Background Unfamiliar face processing is an ability that varies considerably between individuals. Numerous studies have aimed to identify its underlying determinants using controlled experimental procedures. While such tests can isolate variables influence processing, they usually involve somewhat unrealistic situations and optimized images as stimulus material. As a consequence, the extent which performance observed under laboratory settings informative for predicting real-life...

About a decade ago, Super-Recognizers (SRs) were first described as individuals with exceptional face identity processing abilities. Since then, various tests have been developed or adapted to assess individuals' abilities and identify SRs. The extant literature suggests that SRs may be beneficial in police tasks requiring individual identification. However, reality, the performance of has never examined using authentic forensic material. This not only limits external validity test...

We examined human deepfake detection performance (DDP) in relation to face identity processing ability among Berlin Police officers, including Super-Recognizers (SRs). While we find no relationship, further research into DDP using state-of-the-art static deepfakes is needed establish the potential value of SR-deployment.

The term Super-Recognizer (SR), which describes individuals with supposedly superior facial recognition abilities, may be something of a misnomer. In the same way that blind would not considered prosopagnosic, SR diagnoses should emphasise at least face identity processing (FIP) specificity, if in particular. However, SRs tend to diagnosed face-specific behavioral tasks, probing either perception and/or recognition, and leaving neural basis mechanisms underlying their abilities largely...

Individuals can strongly vary in their ability to process face identity. Understanding the mechanisms driving these differences is important for theoretical development, and clinical applied contexts. Here we investigate role of face-space properties relation individual identity processing skills. We consider two fundamental face-space: expansion (how distant from each other similar faces are located such space) adaptability (the degree which distances change over time). Fifty-two...

Abstract Event‐related potential (ERP) studies of developmental prosopagnosia (DP) are rare. Previous ERP investigations have reported smaller N170 amplitude differences between faces and objects in at least three prosopagnosics. The present study is based on a combination behavioural electrophysiological assessment face processing. aim was to investigate the face‐specifity both healthy subjects group DP individuals ( N = 4), using famous nonfamous faces, caricatures houses as stimuli. All...

Eye movements provide a functional signature of how human vision is achieved. Many recent studies have consistently reported robust idiosyncratic visual sampling strategies during face recognition. Whether these interindividual differences are mirrored by neural responses remains unknown. To this aim, we first tracked eye male and female observers Additionally, for every observer obtained an objective index discrimination through EEG that was recorded while they fixated different facial...