A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn't the news report say it was a watch?
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(Medical Xpress)—Native peoples in regions where cameras are uncommon sometimes react with caution when their picture is taken. The fear that something must have been stolen from them to create the photo is often inescapable. ...
In a world first, neuroscientists from the University of Glasgow have been able to construct 3-D facial models using the unique information stored in an individual's brain when recalling the face of a familiar person.
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(Medical Xpress)—Eyewitness testimony is a foundational component in the U. S. criminal justice system. Criminals are convicted and innocent people go free on the basis of an eyewitness testimony. But, sometimes the eyewitness ...
New research investigating the effect of sleep on eyewitness memory has found that having a period of sleep, compared to a period of wake, does not improve eyewitness identification accuracy.
Dec 3, 2019
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On December 30, researchers using artificial intelligence systems to comb through media and social platforms detected the spread of an unusual flu-like illness in Wuhan, China.
Mar 26, 2020
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How we remember things, and how we falter in those memories, is a process that has been studied for decades, but human episodic memory is still poorly understood.
Aug 2, 2018
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When it comes to accurately identifying a criminal suspect, it makes a difference how sure an eyewitness is, finds a study led by a memory expert at the University of California, San Diego. The American justice system should ...
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Flinders University psychologist Professor Neil Brewer is proposing a radical alternative to the traditional police line-up, arguing current eyewitness identification tests often fail to pick the culprit, or worse, wrongfully ...
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Professor Alexander Todorov showed the students in his freshman seminar a series of images of the same blurry face -- with the hint that it was a non-American political leader -- as it would appear from 200, 100 and 50 meters. ...
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