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Cognitive science lab | School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney | perceptual, cognitive and social processing of faces | posts facey stuff | whitelab.au

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SARMAC XVI 2027's abstract submission portals now open! Deadline for submissions: Nov 2nd // mailchi.mp/f2b61bda6610...
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌏 Come and spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺 The @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for 2027. If you're in cogneuro and motivated, get in touch via DM or email. Apps due: 1 Nov 2026 Please share widely!
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Dan Carragher @danieljcarragher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting read - "Shortly after the officers arrived, the lawsuit says, Gorham’s brother realized they should have been looking for a different person with a familiar face: her identical twin." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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She was arrested and faced charges for months, but her twin was the suspect, suit says
Makia Gorham was handcuffed and left without a seat belt in a van before being kept in a holding cell overnight, the suit says. Prosecutors later dropped her case.
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UNSW Face Lab @unswfacelab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An integrative review chapter addressing whether ‘super-recognisers’ possess qualitatively different face processing expertise compared to the rest of us. Current evidence suggests not.
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White, D. (2025). What is special about super-recognisers? In From Super-Recognisers to the Face Blind: Why are some people better at recognising faces? p75–116, Lander, K. (Ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191986802.003.0003
An integrative review chapter addressing whether ‘super-recognisers’ possess qualitatively different face processing expertise compared to the rest of us. Current evidence suggests not.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's not what you know, it's what you know you know. Insight into your own face matching performance means that you can identify the face pairs that you may have answered incorrectly, choose to spend more time on these items, and improve your overall performance: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Metacognitive insight—the ability to monitor one’s own performance—enables efficient allocation of limited resources, but whether this mechanism underlies performance on perceptual tasks has never bee...
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UNSW Face Lab @unswfacelab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How does metacognitive skill shape perceptual comparison performance? A new paper led by our postdoc Zoë Little finds people can identify which face matching decisions they might get wrong—and improve their accuracy by spending more time on these cases.
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Little, Z., Towler, A., Persson, A., & White, D. (2026). Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
How does metacognitive skill shape perceptual comparison performance? A new paper led by our postdoc Zoë Little finds people can identify which face matching decisions they might get wrong—and improve their accuracy by spending more time on these cases.
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UNSW Face Lab @unswfacelab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sounds like a great opportunity!
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UNSW Face Lab @unswfacelab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Automating high stakes image processing does not remove humans from the loop, it just changes their role…
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We're looking for a Postdoc to join the Face Lab at UNSW Psychology! Ideal: someone with strong ML/deep learning expertise and an interest in how people perceive AI-generated faces. 📍 Sydney | Full-time, 18 months 📅 Apply by 3 Sept 2026 🔗 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...
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Research Associate - UNSW Face Research Lab
he Research Associate works within the UNSW Face Research lab located in the School of Psychology at UNSW and is responsible for taking a leading role in a collaborative ARC Discovery Project aiming t...
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