My Research

Currently, I am British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow , and previously I completed a Newton International Fellowship (funded by the Royal Society). I work in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent (UK), I am exploring the role of decision making in face identification. I am conducting this research with my collaborator (and Mentor) Markus Bindemann, as well as with other collaborators across the globe (e.g., Canada, Australia). This research has important theoretical implications for models of face identification and learning, as well as important implications for practical settings (e.g., eyewitness testimony, border patrol settings).

Prior to coming to the University of Kent, I completed my MA (funded by Ontario Graduate Scholarships) and PhD (funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [CGS-D] and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship) under the supervision of Catherine J. Mondloch at Brock University, Canada. My dissertation research focused on investigating individual differences in face identification and face learning. In other projects, I have used cognitive, neural measures and developmental methods to investigate many aspects of face identification.

I am primarily interested in researching face identification (i.e., unfamiliar and familiar face identification, face learning). In my research I have explored the role of experience (e.g., experience with a particular face [face learning], with faces in general [development], and with categories of faces [e.g., own- vs. other-age faces]), and the role of decision making. However, I also am interested in other cognitive factors such as attention, metacognition, expectation and memory. I have been using an assortment of different methods (e.g., EEG, behaviour and eye tracking) and approaches (e.g., experimental, lifespan, individual difference designs) to investigate these processes.

You can find:

• My new paper, that was accepted by Cognition, openly accessible here. With Catherine J. Mondloch, Peter J.B. Hancock and Markus Bindemann, I showed that individual differences in criterion can explain the effect! Findings were consistent across two large scale studies, and three data simulations.

• My new paper that was accepted for publication at JARMAC, here. With Bindemann, I explored the role of response option framing and base rate information in unfamiliar face identification decisions. Open access versions can be found on Research Gate (uploaded by the publisher), or here.

• An open access version of my recent collaboration where Stabile, Mondloch and I investigate the influence of payoffs and base rates on face identification (published in JARMAC) here.

• Me on Bluesky.

• Me at the University of Kent.