Tigermedia - Common Read: Forming and Retrieving Memories
Common Read: Forming and Retrieving Memories
Date: March 17th, 2016
Duration:
50m:12s
In the book, “Picking Cotton”, a person is convicted of a crime he never committed. At the time of trial, the victim is certain of the defendant’s guilt and makes an eyewitness identification. Years later, DNA evidence exonerates the defendant, implicating another, but leads the victim to question her memory of events. This series of events not only relates to other cases the justice system has encountered, but highlights a general feature of human memory, our memories of people, events, and objects are influenced not only by the manner in which they are formed but can be affected by the way in which they are retrieved. Dr. Jankowski will discuss not only how memories are formed but how they are retrieved, and factors that can impact their accuracy.