Alexandra Jesse, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Alexandra Jesse, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Alexandra Jesse, cognitive psychologist at UMass Amherst, says her findings may have practical implications for facial recognition software. It may be made more reliable if it used a person speaking a short sentence rather than a static photo, because speech, with its combination of static plus dynamic features, offers a more complex personal identifier and might be harder to falsify.

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