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PhotoFit Me

Featuring: Activity
PhotoFit Me Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 01 Mar 2011
Would you make a good eyewitness? Try our PhotoFit Me widget and find out. The science behind PhotoFit Me ...

Identifying faces

Identifying faces Copyrighted imageCredit: Production team
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 09 Apr 2010
Using an E-FIT facial composite system the Open University has created some celebrity images. Look at the images and see if you can tell who...

Changing Faces

Featuring: Video
Changing Faces Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 09 Apr 2010
Cognitive psychologist Graham Pike contributed to the development of EFIT-V, a tool now being used to produce images of criminal suspects at very short notice...

Breaking Science: Coffee, chimps and meteorites...

Featuring: Audio
Breaking Science: Coffee, chimps and meteorites... Copyrighted imageCredit: photos.com
Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 20 Dec 2008
Robot ethics, how chimps recognise faces, coffee – keeping the car and it's driver going, and are meteorites hot when they hit the ground?

Turning face perception on its head

Featuring: Video
Turning face perception on its head Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 23 Sep 2008
Are you pretty good at reading an expression? Can you recognise a face in a crowd? Watch the video of the 'Head Spin Trick'

Buzan on how to remember names and faces

Buzan on how to remember names and faces Copyrighted imageCredit: photos.com
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 13 Jul 2008
Tony Buzan offers his advice on how to remember names and faces

When your face is your fortune

When your face is your fortune Creative commons imageCredit: ♥KatB Photography♥ under CC-BY-NC licence
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 19 Mar 2007
How far will celebrities go to control their image? Surprisingly far, when your face is your fortune.

Are Appearances Really Deceptive?

Are Appearances Really Deceptive? Copyrighted imageCredit: Production team
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 09 Aug 2005
Ever Wondered sent Raj Persaud out to discover why first impressions might be more important than you think

Why do we look like this?

Why do we look like this? Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC
Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 09 Aug 2005
Richard Wilson is best known for playing Victor Meldrew in "One Foot in the Grave". For many, Richard is Victor, to others he’s a life...

Learning to talk

Learning to talk Copyrighted imageCredit: Py2000 | Dreamstime.com
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 02 Dec 2004
Dr. Clare Wood takes a look at the development of communication in babies and children