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Article: Security News Tips From Purdue University: Guards, War Coverage; Technology for Safer Airports.
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- September 2, 2003
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Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University today released the following advisory:
SECURITY STARTS WITH VISUAL PERCEPTION
Security guards will do a double take when they learn they can't always believe their eyes, says a Purdue University psychology expert in neural networks.
Gregory Francis, a professor in the School of Liberal Arts, evaluates the after-effects of visual images.
"An airport security guard manning the X-ray machines looks at image after image of luggage," says Francis, an expert in visual perception and neural networks. "The guard could be misled by their ...