Alice J O''Toole
Biographic Data
| ID | 2751187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice J O''Toole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice J |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Toole |
| SIGNATURE | TOOLE A J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7981-1508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The use of AI in psychology
Psychology and AI have a long and interconnected history that dates from Turing's famous query: ‘Can machines think?’ Since that time, insights into human perception, cognition, language and intelligence have passed between these fields in both directions. Psychological phenomena have fuelled the development of AI, and in parallel, the failures/successes of AI have informed theoretical models of psychological phenomena. In the past decade, the pa…
First impressions
First impressions from faces in the real world
The study of first impressions from faces now emphasizes the need to understand trait inferences made to naturalistic face images (British Journal of Psychology, 113, 2022, 1056). Face recognition algorithms based on deep convolutional neural networks simultaneously represent invariant, changeable and environmental variables in face images. Therefore, we suggest them as a comprehensive ‘face space’ model of first impressions of naturalistic faces…
Collaboration to improve cross-race face identification
Face identification is particularly prone to error when individuals identify people of a race other than their own - a phenomenon known as the other-race effect (ORE). Here, we show that collaborative "wisdom-of-crowds" decision-making substantially improves face identification accuracy for own- and other-race faces over individuals working alone. In two online experiments, East Asian and White individuals recognized own- and other-race faces as …
Seeing through disguise
Wisdom of the social versus non-social crowd in face identification
Face identification is more accurate when people collaborate in social dyads than when they work alone (Dowsett & Burton, 2015, Br. J. Psychol., 106, 433). Identification accuracy is also increased when the responses of two people are averaged for each item to create a 'non-social' dyad (White, Burton, Kemp, & Jenkins, 2013, Appl. Cogn. Psychol., 27, 769; White et al., 2015, Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci., 282, 20151292). Does social collaboration ad…
Dissecting the time course of person recognition in natural viewing environments
Person recognition often unfolds over time and distance as a person approaches, with the quality of identity information from faces, bodies, and motion in constant flux. Participants were familiarized with identities using close-up and distant videos. Recognition was tested with videos of people approaching from a distance. We varied the timing of prompted responses in the test videos, the amount of video seen, and whether the face, body, or whol…
The neural processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces
Familiar faces are represented with rich visual, semantic, and emotional codes that support nearly effortless perception and recognition of these faces. Unfamiliar faces pose a greater challenge to human perception and memory systems. The established behavioural disparities for familiar and unfamiliar faces undoubtedly stem from differences in the quality and nature of their underlying neural representations. In this review, our goal is to charac…
Wisdom of the social versus non-social crowd in face identification
Face identification is more accurate when people collaborate in social dyads than when they work alone (Dowsett & Burton, 2015, Br. J. Psychol., 106, 433). Identification accuracy is also increased when the responses of two people are averaged for each item to create a 'non-social' dyad (White, Burton, Kemp, & Jenkins, 2013, Appl. Cogn. Psychol., 27, 769; White et al., 2015, Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci., 282, 20151292). Does social collaboration ad…
Dissecting the time course of person recognition in natural viewing environments
Person recognition often unfolds over time and distance as a person approaches, with the quality of identity information from faces, bodies, and motion in constant flux. Participants were familiarized with identities using close-up and distant videos. Recognition was tested with videos of people approaching from a distance. We varied the timing of prompted responses in the test videos, the amount of video seen, and whether the face, body, or whol…
The neural processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces
Familiar faces are represented with rich visual, semantic, and emotional codes that support nearly effortless perception and recognition of these faces. Unfamiliar faces pose a greater challenge to human perception and memory systems. The established behavioural disparities for familiar and unfamiliar faces undoubtedly stem from differences in the quality and nature of their underlying neural representations. In this review, our goal is to charac…
Dissecting the time course of person recognition in natural viewing environments
Person recognition often unfolds over time and distance as a person approaches, with the quality of identity information from faces, bodies, and motion in constant flux. Participants were familiarized with identities using close-up and distant videos. Recognition was tested with videos of people approaching from a distance. We varied the timing of prompted responses in the test videos, the amount of video seen, and whether the face, body, or whol…
Wisdom of the social versus non-social crowd in face identification
Face identification is more accurate when people collaborate in social dyads than when they work alone (Dowsett & Burton, 2015, Br. J. Psychol., 106, 433). Identification accuracy is also increased when the responses of two people are averaged for each item to create a 'non-social' dyad (White, Burton, Kemp, & Jenkins, 2013, Appl. Cogn. Psychol., 27, 769; White et al., 2015, Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci., 282, 20151292). Does social collaboration ad…
Seeing through disguise
First impressions
First impressions from faces in the real world
The study of first impressions from faces now emphasizes the need to understand trait inferences made to naturalistic face images (British Journal of Psychology, 113, 2022, 1056). Face recognition algorithms based on deep convolutional neural networks simultaneously represent invariant, changeable and environmental variables in face images. Therefore, we suggest them as a comprehensive ‘face space’ model of first impressions of naturalistic faces…
Collaboration to improve cross-race face identification
Face identification is particularly prone to error when individuals identify people of a race other than their own - a phenomenon known as the other-race effect (ORE). Here, we show that collaborative "wisdom-of-crowds" decision-making substantially improves face identification accuracy for own- and other-race faces over individuals working alone. In two online experiments, East Asian and White individuals recognized own- and other-race faces as …
The use of AI in psychology
Psychology and AI have a long and interconnected history that dates from Turing's famous query: ‘Can machines think?’ Since that time, insights into human perception, cognition, language and intelligence have passed between these fields in both directions. Psychological phenomena have fuelled the development of AI, and in parallel, the failures/successes of AI have informed theoretical models of psychological phenomena. In the past decade, the pa…
Face Recognition and Perception (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 works) · Face (sociological concept) (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Face recognition and analysis (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)