The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces

Abstract The unprecedented efforts to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic introduce a new arena for human face recognition in which faces are partially occluded with masks. Here, we tested the extent to which face masks change the way faces are perceived. To this end, we evaluated face pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erez Freud, Andreja Stajduhar, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78986-9