Megan Papesh is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State University, and the director of the Eye Movements, Memory, and Attention Laboratory. Her research on face matching has been featured in the Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. Her lab also researches topics related to episodic (and autobiographical) memory, language processing, and visual search.
How Hard Is It to Catch a Fake Passport?
Imagine that you are a bouncer, checking IDs outside a popular bar in a college town. It is somewhat dark outside the door, there are many distractions: loud music is playing and your job requires you to also keep an eye on the crowd for trouble.