Vicki Bruce | |
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| Born | Victoria Geraldine Bruce 4 January 1953 Essex, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Awards | OBE (1997) DBE (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Newcastle University University of Nottingham University of Stirling University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Processing and remembering pictorial information (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Baddeley |
Dame Victoria Geraldine Bruce, DBE CPsychol FBPsS FRSE FBA (born 4 January 1953), known as Vicki Bruce, is an English psychologist, Professor of Psychology and former Head of the School of Psychology at Newcastle University. She is known for her work on human face perception and person memory, including face recognition and recall by eyewitnesses and gaze. and other aspects of social cognition. She is also interested in visual cognition more generally. She was made a Dame in the 2015 Birthday Honours list.