Dr. Sarah Bate and Dr. Ben Parris of the Psychology Research Group have been successful in their bid to the Research Development Fund to carry out a project entitled: ‘The use of intranasal inhalation of oxytocin to improve incidental eye-witness identification of perpetrators in a face recognition task’. They will receive £1,995 to conduct the research project, which will commence in early 2012. To find out more about face processing research at Bournemouth University, please visit the feature on the BU Research Blog by clicking here.
[...] later recognized. Research into the use of oxytocin to aid in recognition after the fact is still ongoing but could potentially yield groundbreaking results that could greatly help the accuracy of criminal [...]