Senior Exhibitions 2020: The Presenters

Isabella

Do Your Really Remember That? False Memories and Eyewitness Testimony: the Fallibility of Human Memory

How well do you know your own memory? Whether you know it or not, the answer is far more convoluted than you think. Our memories are filled with reconstructions and reinventions of events that we've been exposed to. The human memory is somewhat of a mystery, and the ethics of using eyewitness testimony are even more complicated than you could have imagined.
 
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