Michael Burton (psychologist)

Michael Burton FBA is an English psychologist and professor at the Department of Psychology at University of York.

[1] His primary research interest is in face perception and identification using experimental and computational modelling approaches.

[2] He co-created the Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT),[3] a cognitive test designed to determine a person's ability to match different images of unfamiliar faces.

He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

[4] He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2017.