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Ep19 "How far can you trust your memory?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Problem With Face Recognition Software

The human visual system recognizes faces based on the whole picture. We all like to think that we can remember a face and describe it, but as my students saw from trying to draw the woman who broke into my classroom,. It's really hard to remember the details of someone's face and then try to reconstruct that. The past few decades have seen great studies which undermine our confidence that this should be easy to do.

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