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Kent face matching test

The Kent Face Matching Test (KFMT) is a published resource that provides a challenging test of 1-to-1 face matching (Fysh, M.C. & Bindemann, M. (2017) The Kent Face Matching Test. British Journal of Psychology). Stimulus pairs in this test consist of a combination of controlled high-quality face photographs and relatively unconstrained face photographs from student identity-cards. The KFMT is designed to complement existing resources, such as the best-case scenario provided by the Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT; see Burton, A. M., White, D., & McNeill, A. (2010). The Glasgow Face Matching Test. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 286-291), by providing a face matching test that is robustly more difficult at a group and an individual level.

Construction of the KFMT was funded by a Research Seed Fund grant from the University of Kent to Markus Bindemann and a subsequent GTA scholarship to Matthew C. Fysh. The KFMT is freely available for download from this website for face-matching research. If you use the KFMT for your research or any of its constituent stimuli, then please cite the paper that describes it.

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Relevant publications

The Kent Face Matching Test

  • If you are interested in face matching research, then please view our other publications on this and related topics. These publications are available for download or by request (Email: m.bindemann@kent.ac.uk).Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2017)The Kent Face Matching Test.The British Journal of Psychology.

Face Matching – Various

  • Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2017). Forensic face matching: A review. In M. Bindemann & A. M. Megreya (eds.), Face Processing: Systems, Disorders, and Cultural Differences. New York, NY: Nova.
  • Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M. (2017). Effects of time pressure and time passage on face-matching accuracy. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170249. doi:10.1098/rsos.170249
  • Megreya, A. M., & Bindemann, M. (2017). A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks. Scientific Reports 7, 41133:1-6. doi:10.1038/srep41133
  • Bindemann, M., Fysh, M., Cross, K., & Watts, R. (2016). Matching faces against the clock. i-Perception, 7, 2041669516672219. doi: 10.1177/2041669516672219
  • Alenezi, H. M., Bindemann, M., Fysh, M. C., & Johnston, R. A. (2015). Face matching in a long task: Enforced rest and desk-switching cannot maintain identification accuracy. PeerJ, 3, e1184. doi: 10.1177/2041669516672219
  • Bindemann, M., Attard, J., & Johnston, R. A. (2014). Perceived ability and actual recognition accuracy for unfamiliar and famous faces. Cogent Psychology, 1, 986903. doi:10.1080/23311908.2014.986903
  • Johnston, R. A., & Bindemann, M. (2013). Introduction to forensic face matching. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 697-699. doi:10.1002/acp2963
  • Alenezi, H. M., & Bindemann, M. (2013). The effect of feedback on face matching accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 735-753. doi:10.1002/acp2968
  • Megreya, A. M., & Bindemann, M. (2013). Individual differences in personality and face identification. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 30-37. doi:10.1080/20445911.2012.739153
  • Bindemann, M., Brown, C., Koyas, T., & Russ, A. (2012). Individual differences in face identification postdict eyewitness accuracy. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 1, 96-103. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.02.001
  • Bindemann, M., Avetisyan, M., & Rakow, T. (2012). Who can recognize unfamiliar faces? Individual differences and observers consistency in person identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18, 277-291. doi:10.1037/a0029635
  • Özbek, M., & Bindemann, M. (2011). Exploring the time course of face matching: Temporal constraints impair unfamiliar face identification under temporally unconstrained viewing. Vision Research, 51, 2145-2155. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.08.009

From face matching to species identification in conservation

  • Austen, G. E., Bindemann, M., Griffiths, R. A., & Roberts, D. L. (2016). Species identification by experts and non-experts: Comparing images from field guides. Scientific Reports, 6, 33634:1-7. doi:10.1038/srep33634
  • Gibbon, G. E. M., Bindemann, M., & Roberts, D. L. (2015).