UCR press release on our face memory paper

“Celebrities can be easily spotted on the street, although the internet is also flooded with celebrity lookalikes and hilarious “celebrity sightings” where strangers were mistaken as celebrities. These seemingly contradictory “celebrity sightings” phenomena widely reported on social media bring up a question; are celebrity faces remembered more precisely (and hence more recognizable) but less accurately (with biases where…

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Newly Minted PhD: Hyung-Bum Park

Congratulations to Dr. Park, our newly minted Ph.D. Dr. Park uses sophisticated experimental and computational methods to assess a unique aspect of memory representation, the precise correspondence between external stimulus and internal representation (i.e., accuracy). Since memory accuracy and various experimental effects on it are captured as μ (μs) in Park’s model, Park has officially…

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