Mind games: Extracting facial composites from memory

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Mind games: Extracting facial composites from memory

Kevin Kearley explains how research into human memory, facial recognition and the production of facial composites is driving developments in a vital area of police work.

Date - 22nd August 2014
By - Kevin Kearley - Evoked

Law enforcement agencies are very efficient at recovering images from computer hard drives, but retrieving images from the most complex of data storage devices – the human brain – is a very different challenge and something we are only...

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