Another face memory test from Cambridge

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Here is another one of those face memory tests from Cambridge
I found this one really hard and the results as bad as they looked were at least better
than I expected.

Click on the link below to do the test.
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/facetests/fgcfmt/fgCFMT.php

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 46.
In other words, you got 64% correct.

The first part (picking one face out of a lineup of 3) was really easy. I had plenty of time to note specific features of the one face I was looking for.

I thought I was completely tanking as soon as the second part started, and I had to rely on my ability to see a whole face as familiar instead of memorizing specific features. I'm surprised I scored as well as I did, given the number of almost wild guesses I was forced to make.

I don't think this test is at all accurate. I scored a 79% because I have a system for recognizing faces...When I'm meeting people I take note of their features...eyebrows drawn together, buck teeth, flared nose (for example), so that the next time I see someone with those features my brain "recognizes" them as that same person (it sees the features individually and not the face of the whole). So if I see someone apart from the person I originally met with similar features, it takes me a while to distinguish whether or not this is the same person, and by the time I've figured out who it is I've either said hello to someone I don't know or ignored the person I've met before. In the same vein, when I'm trying to picture someone in my head I can only assemble what features I know, so if I never noted what their chin looked like, for example, I'll only be able to imagine a face with only the features I've remembered and not the person's face as a whole. The best way I can remember what someone looks like is by remembering a photo of them. I don't remember what my mom, my dogs, or even I look like...I'll remember, oh, my mom has brown hair and brown eyes and her nose is turned up a little...but when I try to picture her I just can't.

So basically I don't think these sort of tests are all that effective because I knew I was being tested on it so I consciously remembered...ok weird eyes...puffy cheeks...whereas in real life I almost never remember to do that unless I've met the person several times.

I identified 69 of 72

....and I think I saw at least one of the faces on crimewatch

74%

some of them were billy corgan



What do i win

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 53.
In other words, you got 74% correct.

... and I guessed half of the 2nd and 3rd part.

I scored 71%. And was it just me, or did one of the faces look like on of the guys from System of a Down? (I can't remember what his name is ;^^ )

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 49.
In other words, you got 68% correct.

Not something that surprises me.

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 68.
In other words, you got 94% correct.

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 42.
In other words, you got 58% correct.

By the time I got about 3 pictures away from the study page, I felt like I was guessing.
I could not watch a movie last night because I could not follow the people!

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 63.
In other words, you got 88% correct.

I found this quite easy because I don't mind looking closely at a computer face and I'm good at memorising things such as details. The reason I have problems recognising people in everyday life is because I don't like looking at their eyes so I often avoid their faces althogether, at least I don't stare at them for a long time. At least I know I don't have facial recognition problems, just eye contact problems I think.

89% right

I also tend not to remember peoples faces. I don't understand something though, can normal people visualise the entire face of a peson or do they just look at a specific facial feature which is what I tend to do. I can't visualise someones entire face, just their specific features. I tend to remember peoples noses for some reason

I did well on the first 3 pics that said `practice`. The rest of the test is flawed, the answer is always 2 and in some pics there are none of the target faces. I don`t know what I scored as the program froze but I bet it was 100%

Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 69.
In other words, you got 96% correct.

On our previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 80% of the faces. If you correctly identified less than 65% of the faces, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

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I did not find this hard. I also did pretty well on another test I did recently, where the emotions expressed on faces had to be identified (less well than on this one, because not all emotions expressed appeared genuine to me).
On a third test I did some time ago, where facial and bodily expressions were purposefully communicating something, I scored not much higher than 0%. So I'm not face-blind, but intention-blind.