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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Cognitive Research |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-020-00258-x |