• Bennetts, R.J., Gregory, N.J., & Bate, S. (2024). Both identity and non-identity face perception tasks predict developmental prosopagnosia and face recognition ability. Scientific Reports, 14, 6626.
• Portch, E., Attard-Johnson, J., Estudillo, A.J., Mestry, N., & Bate, S. (2024). "Super-recognisers" and the Legal System. In D. Ross, E. Pica, & J. Pozzulo (Eds.), The Impact of Technology on the Criminal Justice System: A Psychological Overview (pp. 272-301). Routledge: Taylor, and Francis.
• Yovel, G., Bash, E., & Bate, S. (2024). Humans' extreme face recognition abilities challenge the well-established familiarity effect. Cognition, 251, 105904.

2023

• Bobak, A.K., Jones, A.L., Hilker, Z., Mestry, N., Bate, S., & Hancock, P.J.B. (2023). Data driven approaches can tell us as much about the processes underlying face cognition as the quality of the available tests and data sets allows. Where do we go from here? Cortex, 166, 348-364.
• Portch, E., Wignall, L., & Bate, S., (2023). Why can people with developmental prosopagnosia recognise some familiar faces? Peer J, 11:e15497.

2022

• Bate, S., Dalyrmple, K., & Bennetts, R. (2022). Face recognition improvements in adults and children with prosopagnosia. Brain Communications, 4, fcac068. 
• Bennetts, R.J., Gregory, N., Tree, J., Di Bernardi Luft, C., Banissy, M.J., Murray, E., Penton, T., & Bate, S. (2022). Face specific inversion effects provide evidence for two subtypes of developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 174, 108332. 
• Bennetts, R.J., Humphrey, P., Zielinska, P., & Bate, S. (2022). The effect of face coverings on identification and social judgements is consistent across time and individual differences in face recognition ability. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7, 18. 
• Murray, E., Bennetts, R., Tree, J., & Bate, S. (2022). An update of the Benton Facial Recognition Test. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 2318-2333. 
• Stantic, M., Brewer, R., Duchaine, B., Banissy, M., Bate, S., Susilo, T., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022). The Oxford Face Matching Task: A novel, non-biased, test of individual differences in face perception. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 158-173. 
• Stantić, M., Pounder, Z., Bate, S., Susilo, T., Catmur, C., Bird, G. (in press). Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia show independent impairments in face perception, face memory and face matching. Cortex, 157, 266-273. 

2021

• Abudarham, N., Bate, S., Duchaine, B., & Yovel, G. (2021). Developmental prosopagnosics and super recognizers rely on the same facial features used by individuals with normal face recognition abilities. Neuropsychologia, 160, 107963. 
• Bate, S., Mestry, N., Atkinson, M., Bennetts, R.J., & Hills, P.J. (2021). Birth weight predicts individual differences in adult face recognition ability. British Journal of Psychology, 112, 628-644. 
• Bate, S., Portch, E., & Mestry, N. (2021). Guidelines for studying “super-recognizers”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 2154-2164. 

 

2020

• Adams, A., Hills, P., Bennetts, R., & Bate, S. (2020). Coping strategies for developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 30, 1996-2015. 
• Bate, S., Adams, A., & Bennetts, R.J. (2020). Guess Who? Facial identity discrimination training improves face memory in typically developing children. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 901-913. 
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Murray, E., & Portch, E. (2020). Enhanced matching of children’s faces in “super-recognisers” but not high-contact controls. iPerception, 11, 1-12. 
• Bate, S., Mestry, N., & Portch, E. (2020). Resource limits: individual differences between observers in forensic face matching. In M. Bindemann (Ed.), Forensic Face Matching: Research and Practice. Oxford University Press. 
• Murray, E. & Bate, S. (2020). Diagnosing Developmental Prosopagnosia: Repeated Assessment using the Cambridge Face Memory Test. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 200884. 

2019

• Bate, S., Adams, A., Bennetts, R., & Line, H. (2019). Developmental prosopagnosia with concurrent topographical disorientation: A case report and virtual reality training programme. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 29, 1290-1312.
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Gregory, N.J., Tree, J., Murray, E., Adams, A., Bobak, A.K., Penton, T., Yang, T., & Banissy, M. (2019). Objective patterns of face recognition deficits in 165 adults with self-reported developmental prosopagnosia. Brain Sciences, 9, 133.
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., Burns, E., & Dudfield, G. (2019). The limits of super recognition: A cross-race effect in individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, 363-377.
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Tree, J.J., Adams, A., & Murray, E. (2019). The domain-specificity of face perception impairments in 40 cases of developmental prosopagnosia. Cognition, 192, .
• Bate, S., & Dudfield, G. (2019). Subjective assessment for super recognition: An evaluation of self-report methods in civilian and police participants. PeerJ, 7, e6330.
• Bate, S., Frowd, C., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Portch, E., Murray, E., & Dudfield, G. (2019). The consistency of superior face recognition skills in police officers. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
• Bate, S., Portch, E., Mestry, N., & Bennetts, R.J. (2019). Redefining super recognition in the real-world: Skilled face or person identity recognisers? British Journal of Psychology, 110, 480-482.
• Hasshim, N., Bate, S., Downes, M., & Parris, B.A. (2019). Response and semantic Stroop effects in mixed and pure blocks contexts: An ex-Gaussian analysis. Experimental Psychology, 66, 231-238.
• Murray, E., & Bate, S.. (2019). Self-ratings of face recognition ability are influenced by gender but not prosopagnosia severity. Psychological Assessment, 31, 828-832.

2018

• Bate, S., Frowd, C., Bennetts, R., Hasshim, N., Murray, E., Bobak, A.K., Wills, H., & Richards, S. (2018). Applied screening tests for the detection of superior face recognition. Cognitive Research: Principals and Implications, 3, 22.
• Murray, E., Hills, P.J., Bennetts, R.J., & Bate, S. (2018). Identifying hallmark symptoms of developmental prosopagnosia for non-experts. Scientific Reports, 8, 1690.
• Penton, T., Bate, S., Dalrymple, K.A., Tamm, M., Reed, T., Godovich, S., Kelly, M., Duchaine, B., & Banissy, M.J. (2018). Using high frequency transcranial random noise stimulation to modulate face memory performance in younger and older adults: Lessons learnt from mixed findings. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 863.

2017

• Bate, S., & Murray, E. (2017). The extremes of face recognition: Prosopagnosia and super recognition. In M. Bindemann & A.M. Megreya (Eds.), Face Processing: Systems, Disorders and Cultural Differences (pp. 203-222). Nova Science Publishers.
• Bate, S., & Tree, J.J. (2017). The definition and diagnosis of developmental prosopagnosia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 193-200.
• Bennetts, R.J., Mole, J.A., & Bate, S. (2017). Super recognition in development: A case study of an adolescent with extraordinary face recognition skills. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 34, 357-376.
• Bennetts, R.J., Murray, E., Boyce, T., & Bate, S. (2017). Prevalence of face recognition deficits in middle childhood. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 234-258.
• Bobak, A.K., Bennetts, R.J., Parris, B.A., Jansari, A., & Bate, S. (2017). Corrigendum to “An in-depth cognitive examination of individuals with superior face recognition skills” [Cortex 82 2016 48-62]. Cortex, 89, 175-176.
• Bobak, A.K., Parris, B.A., Gregory, N.J., Bennetts, R.J., & Bate, S. (2017). Eye-movement strategies in developmental prosopagnosia and “super” face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 201-217.
• Burns, E.J., Bennetts, R.J., Bate, S., Wright, V.C., Weidemann, C.T., & Tree, J.J. (2017). Intact word processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Scientific Reports, 7, 1683..

2016

• Bobak, A.K., Bennetts, R.J., Parris, B.A., Jansari, A., & Bate, S. (2016). An in-depth cognitive examination of individuals with superior face recognition skills. Cortex, 82, 48-62.
• Bobak, A.K., Dowsett, A., & Bate, S. (2016). Solving the border control problem: Evidence of enhanced face matching in individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. PLos One, 11, e0148148.
• Bobak, A.K., Hancock, P.J.B., & Bate, S. (2016). Super-recognizers in action: Evidence from face matching and face memory tasks. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 81-91.
• Bobak, A., Pampoulov, P., & Bate, S. (2016). Detecting superior face recognition skills in a large sample of young British adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1378.

2015

• Bate, S., & Bennetts, R. (2015). The independence of expression and identity in face-processing: Evidence from neuropsychological case studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 770.
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Mole, J.A., Ainge, J.A., Gregory, N.J., Bobak, A.K., & Bussunt, A. (2015). Rehabilitation of Face-Processing Skills in an Adolescent with Prosopagnosia: Evaluation of an Online Perceptual Training Programme. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 25, 733-762.
• Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Parris, B.A. Bindemann, M., Udale, R., & Bussunt, A. (2015). Oxytocin increases bias, but not accuracy, in face recognition line-ups. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1010-1014.
• Bennetts, R., & Bate, S. (2015). The influence of oxytocin on face-processing skills. In E. Anderson (Ed.), Advances in oxytocin research (pp. 51-65). Nova Science Publishers.
• Bennetts, R., Butcher, N., Lander, K., Udale, R., & Bate, S. (2015). Movement cues aid face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychology, 29, 855-860.
• Gregory, N.J., Lόpez, B., Graham, G., Marshman, P., Bate, S. & Kargas, N. (2015). Reduced gaze following and attention to heads when viewing a "live" social scene. PLos One, 10, e0121792.

2014

• Bate, S. (2014). Face facts: Understanding prosopagnosia. Psychology Review, 19, 18-21.
• Bate, S., & Bennetts, R. (2014). The rehabilitation of face recognition impairments: A critical review and future directions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 491.
• Bate, S., Cook, S.J., Duchaine, B., Tree, J.J., Burns, E.J., & Hodgson, T.L. (2014). Intranasal inhalation of oxytocin improves face processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 50, 55-63 .
• Parris, B.A., Dienes, Z., Bate, S., & Gothard, S. (2014). Oxytocin impedes the effect of the word blindness posthypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 895-899.

2013

• Bate, S. (2013). Face recognition and its disorders. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Bate, S., Cook, S.J., Mole, J., & Cole, J. (2013). First report of generalized face processing difficulties in Möbius sequence. PLos One, 8, e62656.

2012

• Bate, S., & Cook, S.J. (2012). Covert recognition relies on affective valence in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from the skin conductance response. Neuropsychology, 26, 670-674.
• Parris, B.A., Bate, S., Brown, S., & Hodgson, T.L. (2012). Facilitating goal-oriented behaviour in the Stroop task: When executive control is influenced by automatic processing. PLoS One, 7 (10), e46994.

2011

• Bate, S. (2011). Understanding facial recognition difficulties in children: Prosopagnosia management strategies for parents and professionals. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18, e17-e18.

2010

• Bate, S., Haslam, C., Hodgson, T.L., Jansari, A., Gregory, N.J., & Kay, J. (2010). Positive and negative emotion enhances the processing of famous faces in a semantic judgment task. Neuropsychology, 24, 84-89.
• Bate, S., Kay, J., Code, C.C., Haslam, C., & Hallowel, B. (2010). Eighteen years on: What next for the PALPA? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 190-202.
• Bate, S., Parris, B.A., Haslam, C., & Kay, J.M. (2010). Socio-emotional functioning and face recognition ability in the normal population. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 239-242.

2009

• Bate, S., Haslam, C., & Hodgson, T.L. (2009). Angry faces are special too: Evidence from the visual scanpath. Neuropsychology, 23, 658-667.
• Bate, S., Haslam, C., Jansari, A., & Hodgson, T.L. (2009). Covert face recognition relies on affective valence in congenital prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 391-411.

2008

• Bate, S., Haslam, C., Tree, J.J., & Hodgson, T.L. (2008). Evidence of an eye movement-based memory effect in congenital prosopagnosia. Cortex, 44, 806-819. View PDF