We are interested in how we perceive and remember faces, in particular how we might store them. We are very good at recognising familiar faces, really quite bad with those we don't know. Some of our work is aimed at helping with the difficulty posed by unfamiliar faces. For example, if you are witness to a crime and are asked to create a likeness of the person you saw, our EvoFIT system may help and it is currently being tested by police. Other work is aimed at helping police or security guards decide whether the person in front of them really is who they say they are.

We are also studying the gaze behaviour of children with Williams syndrome and with autism, particularly the way they look at, or avoid, faces. Understanding their behaviour is a first step to helping them interact more typically.

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