Are super‐face‐recognisers also super‐voice‐recognisers? Evidence from cross‐modal identification tasks
Are super‐face‐recognisers also super‐voice‐recognisers? Evidence from cross‐modal identification tasks
Individual differences in face identification ability range from prosopagnosia to super‐recognition. The current study examined whether face identification ability predicts voice identification ability (participants: N = 529). Superior‐face‐identifiers (exceptional at face memory and matching), superior‐face‐recognisers (exceptional at face memory only), superior‐face‐matchers (exceptional face matchers only), and controls completed the Bangor Voice Matching Test, Glasgow Voice Memory Test, and a Famous Voice Recognition Test. Meeting predictions, those possessing exceptional face memory and matching skills outperformed typical‐range face groups at voice memory and voice matching respectively. Proportionally more super‐face‐identifiers also achieved our super‐voice‐recogniser criteria on two or more tests. Underlying cross‐modality (voices vs. faces) and cross‐task (memory vs. perception) mechanisms may therefore drive superior performances. Dissociations between Glasgow Voice Memory Test voice and bell recognition also suggest voice‐specific effects to match those found with faces. These findings have applied implications for policing, particularly in cases when only suspect voice clips are available.
face recognition, policing, super-recognition, voice matching, voice recognition
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Jenkins, Ryan E., Tsermentseli, Stella, Monks, Claire P., Robertson, David J., Stevenage, Sarah, Symons, Ashley E. and Davis, Josh P.
(2021)
Are super‐face‐recognisers also super‐voice‐recognisers? Evidence from cross‐modal identification tasks.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35 (3), .
(doi:10.1002/acp.3813).
Abstract
Individual differences in face identification ability range from prosopagnosia to super‐recognition. The current study examined whether face identification ability predicts voice identification ability (participants: N = 529). Superior‐face‐identifiers (exceptional at face memory and matching), superior‐face‐recognisers (exceptional at face memory only), superior‐face‐matchers (exceptional face matchers only), and controls completed the Bangor Voice Matching Test, Glasgow Voice Memory Test, and a Famous Voice Recognition Test. Meeting predictions, those possessing exceptional face memory and matching skills outperformed typical‐range face groups at voice memory and voice matching respectively. Proportionally more super‐face‐identifiers also achieved our super‐voice‐recogniser criteria on two or more tests. Underlying cross‐modality (voices vs. faces) and cross‐task (memory vs. perception) mechanisms may therefore drive superior performances. Dissociations between Glasgow Voice Memory Test voice and bell recognition also suggest voice‐specific effects to match those found with faces. These findings have applied implications for policing, particularly in cases when only suspect voice clips are available.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 February 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 February 2021
Published date: 1 May 2021
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This research was funded by the University of Greenwich Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholarship (2017/2018) awarded to the second, third, and seventh authors. Thanks go to Constanze M?hl and Virginia Aglieri for the use of the BVMT and the GVMT respectively. We also thank Rebecca Glass, Nikolay Petrov, Bethan Burnside, Katy Weatherley and Dr Elena Belanova for their assistance in data collection, inter-rater analyses and test piloting. Parts of this research have been presented at the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences conference, 2019, at Brunel University London; Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2019 at University of East Anglia; the British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section & Developmental Psychology Section joint conference 2019, in Stoke; and the Experimental Psychology Society January London Meeting 2020.
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© 2021 The Authors. Applied Cognitive Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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face recognition, policing, super-recognition, voice matching, voice recognition
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