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  1. An in-depth investigation of face perception in developmental prosopagnosia

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychology, June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  2. The impact of forensic delay: facilitating facial composite construction using an early-recall retrieval technique

    Article • Ergonomics, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  3. This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia

    Article • PLOS One, April 2025, PLOS

    Peter Hancock

  4. Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, November 2024, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  5. Benchmarking automation-aided performance in a forensic face matching task

    Article • Applied Ergonomics, November 2024, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  6. The Wisdom of the Crowd Can Unmask Faces

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, September 2024, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  7. Evidence for different visual processing strategy for non-face stimuli in developmental prosopagnosia

    Article • Visual Cognition, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  8. Trust in automation and the accuracy of human–algorithm teams performing one-to-one face matching tasks

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  9. A new way of classifying developmental prosopagnosia: Balanced Integration Score

    Article • Cortex, March 2024, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  10. Face masks and fake masks: the effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  11. Data-driven studies in face identity processing rely on the quality of the tests and data sets

    Article • Cortex, September 2023, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  12. How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight?

    Article • Body Image, March 2023, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  13. Can humans use facial recognition algorithms to improve their identification decisions?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, December 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Carragher, Peter Hancock

  14. Exploring perceptual similarity and its relation to image-based spaces: an effect of familiarity

    Article • Visual Cognition, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  15. The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  16. Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  17. Visual search performance in ‘CCTV’ and mobile phone-like video footage

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  18. Familiar faces as islands of expertise

    Article • Cognition, September 2021, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  19. Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  20. Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, October 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Peter Hancock

  21. Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task

    Article • Psychological Research, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  22. Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, November 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  23. Is the Letter Cancellation Task a Suitable Index of Ego Depletion?

    Article • Social Psychology, September 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Peter Hancock

  24. Eye see through you! Eye tracking unmasks concealed face recognition despite countermeasures

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  25. A grey area: how does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching?

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  26. EvoFIT Facial Composite Images: A Detailed Assessment of Impact on Forensic Practitioners, Police Investigators, Victims, Witnesses, Offenders and the Media

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  27. The impact of external facial features on the construction of facial composites

    Article • Ergonomics, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  28. An item's status in semantic memory determines how it is recognized: Dissociable patterns of brain activity observed for famous and unfamiliar faces

    Article • Neuropsychologia, October 2018, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  29. Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Peter Hancock

  30. Evaluation of Dense 3D Reconstruction from 2D Face Images in the Wild

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  31. Breathe, relax and remember: An investigation into how focused breathing can improve identification of EvoFIT facial composites

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  32. Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements trigger equivalent gaze-cued orienting effects

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Peter Hancock

  33. Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  34. Fixation patterns, not clinical diagnosis, predict body size over-estimation in eating disordered women and healthy controls

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, March 2016, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  35. Holistic face processing can inhibit recognition of forensic facial composites.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  36. A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Forensic Practice, November 2015, Emerald

    Peter Hancock

  37. Are two views better than one? Investigating three-quarter view facial composites

    Article • Journal of Forensic Practice, November 2015, Emerald

    Peter Hancock

  38. Super-recognisers in Action: Evidence from Face-matching and Face Memory Tasks

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, October 2015, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  39. Registered Replication Report

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Simon Chu, Dr Jonathan Jong, Peter Hancock

  40. That looks familiar: attention allocation to familiar and unfamiliar faces in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  41. Configural and featural information in facial-composite images

    Article • Science & Justice, May 2014, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  42. Improving Discrimination and Face Matching with Caricature

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, November 2013, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  43. Applications of Face Analysis and Modeling in Media Production

    Article • IEEE Multimedia, October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  44. Development and Evaluation of a Forensic Exhibit for Science Centres

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  45. Face Recognition and Description Abilities in People with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, August 2013, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  46. Whole-face procedures for recovering facial images from memory

    Article • Science & Justice, June 2013, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  47. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) attend typically to faces and objects presented within their picture communication systems

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, April 2013, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  48. Spontaneous and cued gaze-following in autism and Williams syndrome

    Article • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  49. The organization of conspecific face space in nonhuman primates

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  50. Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites

    Article • Visual Cognition, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  51. Holistic Versus Featural Facial Composite Systems for People with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, June 2012, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  52. Interviewing Techniques for Darwinian Facial-Composite Systems

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2012, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  53. Adaptation to Antifaces and the Perception of Correct Famous Identity in an Average Face

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  54. Recovering faces from memory: The distracting influence of external facial features.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  55. The ‘Double Face' Illusion

    Article • Perception, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Peter Hancock

  56. BMI Not WHR Modulates BOLD fMRI Responses in a Sub-Cortical Reward Network When Participants Judge the Attractiveness of Human Female Bodies

    Article • PLOS One, November 2011, PLOS

    Peter Hancock

  57. Similar neural adaptation mechanisms underlying face gender and tilt aftereffects

    Article • Vision Research, September 2011, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  58. Differences in eye-movement patterns between anorexic and control observers when judging body size and attractiveness

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, March 2011, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  59. The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, March 2011, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  60. Developmental changes in the engagement of episodic retrieval processes and their relationship with working memory during the period of middle childhood

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, January 2011, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  61. Adaptation May Cause Some of the Face Caricature Effect

    Article • Perception, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Peter Hancock

  62. Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  63. Seeing More Clearly with Glasses?: The Impact of Glasses and Technology on Unfamiliar Face Matching and Identification of Facial Composites

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  64. Changing faces: Direction is important

    Article • Visual Cognition, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  65. Patterns of eye movements when male and female observers judge female attractiveness, body fat and waist-to-hip ratio

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2009, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  66. Evolving the face of a criminal: how to search a face space more effectively

    Article • Soft Computing, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  67. Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching

    Article • August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  68. Multiple repetition priming of faces: Massed and spaced presentations

    Article • Visual Cognition, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  69. Looking at movies and cartoons: eye-tracking evidence from Williams syndrome and autism

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, February 2009, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  70. Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively

    Article • Soft Computing, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  71. Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  72. Viewing it differently: Social scene perception in Williams syndrome and Autism

    Article • Neuropsychologia, September 2008, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  73. Segregation by onset asynchrony

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2008, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Peter Hancock

  74. Effecting an Improvement to the Fitness Function. How to Evolve a More Identifiable Face

    Article • August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  75. Improving the quality of facial composites using a holistic cognitive interview.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  76. An evaluation of US systems for facial composite production

    Article • Ergonomics, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  77. An analysis of body shape attractiveness based on image statistics: Evidence for a dissociation between expressions of preference and shape discrimination

    Article • Visual Cognition, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  78. An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites

    Article • Visual Cognition, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  79. Equally attending but still not seeing: An eye-tracking study of change detection in own- and other-race faces

    Article • Visual Cognition, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  80. Maximum-Likelihood Watermarking Detection on Fingerprint Images

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  81. Parallel approaches to composite production: interfaces that behave contrary to expectation

    Article • Ergonomics, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  82. The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, February 2007, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  83. Monozygotic Twins' Colour-Number Association: a Case Study

    Article • Cortex, January 2006, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  84. Robust representations for face recognition: The power of averages

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr David White, Peter Hancock

  85. The enigma of facial asymmetry: Is there a gender-specific pattern of facedness?

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, July 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  86. A forensically valid comparison of facial composite systems

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  87. Contemporary composite techniques: The impact of a forensically-relevant target delay

    Article • Legal and Criminological Psychology, February 2005, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  88. Coding of visual information in the brain

    Article • Network Computation in Neural Systems, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Peter Hancock

  89. Pop-out from abrupt visual onsets

    Article • Vision Research, September 2004, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  90. EvoFIT

    Article • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, July 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Peter Hancock

  91. What's a face worth: Noneconomic factors in game playing

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Peter Hancock

  92. Human female attractiveness: waveform analysis of body shape

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Peter Hancock

  93. The role of masculinity and distinctiveness in judgments of human male facial attractiveness

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, November 2002, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  94. From corpora to cuttlefish

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, February 2002, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  95. Four heads are better than one: Combining face composites yields improvements in face likeness.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  96. Four heads are better than one: Combining face composites yields improvements in face likeness.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Hancock

  97. Human and automatic face recognition: a comparison across image formats

    Article • Vision Research, November 2001, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  98. Unfamiliar faces: memory or coding?

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, January 2001, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  99. Using truss networks to estimate the biomass of Oreochromis niloticus, and to investigate shape characteristics

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, October 2000, Wiley

    Peter Hancock

  100. Recognition of unfamiliar faces

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, September 2000, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  101. A comparison of two computer-based face identification systems with human perceptions of faces

    Article • Vision Research, August 1998, Elsevier

    Peter Hancock

  102. The principal components of natural images

    Article • Network Computation in Neural Systems, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Leslie S Smith, Peter Hancock

  103. Realistic neural nets need to learn iconic representations

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, September 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Leslie S Smith, Peter Hancock

  104. Formal equivalence of Stent and Grossberg synaptic modification rules

    Article • Network Computation in Neural Systems, January 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Leslie S Smith, Peter Hancock

  105. Unfamiliar face recognition

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Peter Hancock

  106. Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  107. Comparisons between human and computer recognition of faces

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock

  108. Gannet: Genetic design of a neural net for face recognition

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Peter Hancock

  109. Genetic algorithms and permutation problems: a comparison of recombination operators for neural net structure specification

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Peter Hancock