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From: Diverse types of expertise in facial recognition

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Different processing underlies face recognition expertise in super-recognizers and forensic examiners. (A): An example trial from the Expertise in Facial Comparison Test40 (EFCT). These images show different people. (B): Super-recognizers demonstrate superior accuracy after seeing face images for just 2 s, suggesting that fast, intuitive processes underlie their expertise whereas examiners’ expertise only becomes apparent when given sufficient time to deploy their slow, feature-by-feature comparison strategy. Violin plots show the distribution of performance for student controls, forensic examiners and super-recognizers on the upright conditions of the EFCT. Red lines show group means.

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