The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory.
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Marsh, J. E., Demaine, J., Bell, R., Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Roer, J. P., & Buchner, A. (2015)
The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0029
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential susceptibility of eyewitness memory to the presence of extraneous background speech that comprises a descr...
Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)
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Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahník, Š., Birch, S., Birt, A. R., …Zwaan, R. A. (2014)
Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(5), 556-578. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614545653
Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally d...
Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites.
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Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., Pitchford, M., Bruce, V., Atkins, R., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2012)
Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites. Visual Cognition, 20, 1215-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2012.743936
Eyewitnesses often construct a ‘composite’ face of a person they saw commit a crime, a picture that police use to identify suspects. We described a technique (Frowd et al., 2...
Evolving an identifiable face of a criminal
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Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2012)
Evolving an identifiable face of a criminal. The psychologist, 25, 116-119
Witness Interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite?
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Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., & Andrews, S. (2011)
Witness Interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite?. International Journal of Security and Its Applications, 5, 37-48
Facial composites are used by Police to generate lines of enquiry; unfortunately composites made by traditional ‘feature’ systems are not often accurately named. One reason co...
Do children utilize motion when recognizing faces?
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Skelton, F., & Hay, D. (2008)
Do children utilize motion when recognizing faces?. Visual Cognition, 16(4), 419-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280701577496
Previous research indicates that unfamiliar faces may be recognised better if they are viewed in motion. This study utilised a three trial learning paradigm to investigate whe...