Alice Towler

May 17, 2023 | journals.plos.org | James Dunn |UNSW Sydney |Alice Towler |Richard Kemp

2.2.2 Memory for faces and the context in which they are encountered. All of the lab-based face identification tasks presented so far involved perceptual matching, not memory. However, in many surveillance and security scenarios, it is important to retain faces in memory. For example, police super-recognisers are often asked to commit large numbers of facial photos of suspects to memory prior to large public events, aiming to recognize them in the crowds [38].