Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public. Consequently, many people now wear surgical face masks in public. We investigated whether surgical face masks affected the per...

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Main Authors: Daniel J. Carragher, Peter J. B. Hancock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-11-01
Series:Cognitive Research
Subjects:
Face recognition
Identity verification
Familiarity
Deep neural network
Signal detection theory
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-020-00258-x

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