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@unswfacelab.bsky.social

Cognitive science lab | School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney | perceptual, cognitive and social processing of faces | posts facey stuff | https://whitelab.au/

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UNSW Face Lab@unswfacelab.bsky.social · 2d ago

Are familiar and unfamiliar faces recognised using qualitatively different processes? We tested this using natural variation in TV viewing behaviour — individual differences evidence points to shared processing.

White, D., Piggott, M., Wissmann, G., & Burton, A. M. (2027). Shared processing in familiar and unfamiliar face matching. Cognition, 278, 106735.

Are familiar and unfamiliar faces recognised using qualitatively different processes? We tested this using natural variation in TV viewing behaviour — individual differences evidence points to shared processing.

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Dan Carragher@danieljcarragher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting read - "Shortly after the officers arrived, the lawsuit says, Gorham’s brother realized they should have been looking for a different person with a familiar face: her identical twin." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

She was arrested and faced charges for months, but her twin was the suspect, suit says

Makia Gorham was handcuffed and left without a seat belt in a van before being kept in a holding cell overnight, the suit says. Prosecutors later dropped her case.

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UNSW Face Lab@unswfacelab.bsky.social · 2w ago

An integrative review chapter addressing whether ‘super-recognisers’ possess qualitatively different face processing expertise compared to the rest of us. Current evidence suggests not.

White, D. (2025). What is special about super-recognisers? In From Super-Recognisers to the Face Blind: Why are some people better at recognising faces? p75–116, Lander, K. (Ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191986802.003.0003

An integrative review chapter addressing whether ‘super-recognisers’ possess qualitatively different face processing expertise compared to the rest of us. Current evidence suggests not.

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Zoë Little@zoelittle.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's not what you know, it's what you know you know. Insight into your own face matching performance means that you can identify the face pairs that you may have answered incorrectly, choose to spend more time on these items, and improve your overall performance: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Metacognitive insight—the ability to monitor one’s own performance—enables efficient allocation of limited resources, but whether this mechanism underlies performance on perceptual tasks has never bee...

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UNSW Face Lab@unswfacelab.bsky.social · 4w ago

How does metacognitive skill shape perceptual comparison performance? A new paper led by our postdoc Zoë Little finds people can identify which face matching decisions they might get wrong—and improve their accuracy by spending more time on these cases.

Little, Z., Towler, A., Persson, A., & White, D. (2026). Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

How does metacognitive skill shape perceptual comparison performance? A new paper led by our postdoc Zoë Little finds people can identify which face matching decisions they might get wrong—and improve their accuracy by spending more time on these cases.

doi.org

UNSW Face Lab@unswfacelab.bsky.social · last mo.

Automating high stakes image processing does not remove humans from the loop, it just changes their role…

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

Geoffrey Hinton admitted he was wrong that AI would replace radiologists. Healthcare demand is elastic, so cheaper/faster scan reading creates more scans, and radiologists do more than interpret images. What many people fail to consider is AI automating tasks is not the same as eliminating the job

Dr James Dunn@jamesdunn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're looking for a Postdoc to join the Face Lab at UNSW Psychology! Ideal: someone with strong ML/deep learning expertise and an interest in how people perceive AI-generated faces. 📍 Sydney | Full-time, 18 months 📅 Apply by 3 Sept 2026 🔗 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

Research Associate - UNSW Face Research Lab

he Research Associate works within the UNSW Face Research lab located in the School of Psychology at UNSW and is responsible for taking a leading role in a collaborative ARC Discovery Project aiming t...

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