Individual Differences in Face Identification

The ability to identify faces varies substantially across individuals. Some people cannot recognize close family members, while others can identify someone years after a brief encounter. This project explores the factors underlying these individual differences.

Representative publications:

Bryan Leong, Alejandro J. Estudillo, Ahamed Miflah Hussain Ismail (2023). Holistic and featural processing’s link to face recognition varies by individual and task. Scientific Reports, 13.

Alejandro J. Estudillo, Hoo Keat Wong (2021). Associations between self-reported and objective face recognition abilities are only evident in above- and below-average recognisers. PeerJ, 9(e10629).

Alejandro J. Estudillo, Markus Bindemann (2014). Generalization across View in Face Memory and Face Matching. I-Perception, 5(7).