Super-recognisers pinpoint strangers

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3048, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People with extraordinary recognition skills--or "super-recognizers"--maybe particularly suited to jobs in national security. Identifying familiar faces from CCTV footage is a relatively straightforward task, but identifying unfamiliar ones is much harder. When it comes to border control or a criminal investigation, matching an unfamiliar face from a photograph to a real person can be vitally Important. However, past research suggests that passport officers are no better than other people at matching identities, and few attempts to train people to Improve facial recognition have been successful. An alternative option may be to employ people who have extraordinary face-processing skills. Anna Bobak at Bournemouth University in the UK and her colleagues tested super-recognizers to investigate their value as a resource for national security agencies.