Face masks are less effective than sunglasses in masking face identity

• Main Authors: Or, Charles C.‑F., Ng, Kester Y. J., Chia, Yiik, Koh, Jing Han, Lim, Denise Y., Lee, Alan L. F.
• 其他作者: School of Social Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2023
• 主題: Social sciences::Psychology; Facial Recognition; Mask
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168767
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

The effect of covering faces on face identification is recently garnering interest amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we investigated how face identification performance was affected by two types of face disguise: sunglasses and face masks. Observers studied a series of faces; then judged whether a s...