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James D Dunn¹, Alice Towler^1,2, Richard I Kemp¹

¹School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

|May 17, 2023

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High-performing individuals, known as super-recognisers (SRs), demonstrate superior face recognition abilities. A police force successfully implemented a selection process to identify and utilize SRs for enhanced face identification tasks.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Forensic Science
Neuroscience

Background:

Individual differences in face recognition are stable, heritable, and linked to brain structure.
Super-recognisers (SRs) possess exceptional facial recognition skills, but selection methods are seldom studied.
Applied settings can benefit from identifying and employing SRs for tasks requiring high face recognition accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

To report on an end-to-end selection process for establishing a super-recogniser (SR) unit within a police force.
To evaluate the performance of selected SRs compared to control groups and forensic specialists.
To investigate the transferability of SR abilities to non-face identity tasks.

Main Methods:

1600 Australian police officers completed standardized face identification tests.
38 SRs were recruited based on test performance for 10 follow-up tests.
Performance was compared between SRs, controls, and forensic specialists on various identification tasks.

Main Results:

SRs outperformed controls by 20% in lab-based face memory and matching tests.
SRs matched or exceeded the accuracy of forensic specialists in face identification.
SR abilities showed limited transfer to body identity and visual scene recognition tasks.

Conclusions:

Super-recognisers (SRs) represent a viable solution for enhancing face identity processing in operational environments.
Strict selection criteria are crucial for mitigating variability in individual SR performance.
While SRs excel at face recognition, their abilities do not universally transfer to related perceptual tasks.