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Would you make a good eyewitness? OU PhotoFit Me app is launched
Could you recreate a face from memory? It's hard, says Graham Pike, the Open University's Professor of Forensic Psychology, who works with the police to develop more intuitive ways of helping witnesses to produce accurate images of criminal suspects.
He says: "The problem for eyewitnesses is not only to have a mental picture of the face of the perpetrator, but to translate this into a verbal description. Both of these actions are very hard to do."
The OU has developed an app which mimics the latest PhotoFit systems in use by police. Have a go and see if you can recreate the face of a friend, family member or celebrity.
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Could you recreate a face from memory? It's hard, says Graham Pike, the Open University's Professor of Forensic Psychology, who works with the police to develop more intuitive ways of helping witnesses to produce accurate images of criminal suspects. He says: "The problem for eyewitnesses is not only to have a mental picture of the face of the perpetrator, ...
Making faces: identifying police suspects
Open University cognitive psychologist Graham Pike contributed to the development of EFIT-V, a tool now being used in the process of identifying police suspects. It is being developed to allow law enforcement agencies to produce images of criminal suspects at very short notice at crime scenes.
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Open University cognitive psychologist Graham Pike contributed to the development of EFIT-V, a tool now being used in the process of identifying police suspects. It is being developed to allow law enforcement agencies to produce images of criminal suspects at very short notice at crime scenes. Useful links Victims and witnesses Dr Graham Pike ...