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Kristen Baker is a Newton International Fellow (awarded by the Royal Society) at the University of Kent's School of Psychology, conducting research under Dr. Markus Bindemann on decision-making in face identification with implications for eyewitness testimony and border security.
She earned her PhD from Brock University, where her dissertation examined individual differences in face identification and learning, supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Ontario Graduate Scholarship funding.
Her research integrates cognitive and developmental perspectives to investigate face recognition mechanisms, focusing on individual variability, familiarity processes, and forensic applications. She employs experimental methods comparing adult and child participants across controlled identification tasks.
Recent publications in Cognition and Perception reveal consistent exploration of stable individual differences in face identification, expertise effects (e.g., photographers), aging impacts on familiar face recognition, and within-person variability in identity perception.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Newton International Fellowship (Royal Society)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada PhD Fellowship
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Supported by prestigious fellowships throughout her career, she currently contributes to Dr. Bindemann's research group without documented student supervision or independent grant leadership.
She operates within the University of Kent's visual cognition research team, focusing on empirical face processing studies with real-world forensic relevance.
