Memory and law
Sinnott-Armstrong, WalterContributor
Nadel, LynnContributor
New York : Oxford University Press,
2012.
How well does memory work, how accurate is it, and can we tell when someone is reporting an accurate memory? Can we distinguish a true memory from a false one? Can memories be selectively enhanced, or erased? Are memories altered by emotion, by stress by drugs? These questions and more are addressed in this book.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
How well does memory work, how accurate is it, and can we tell when someone is reporting an accurate memory? Can we distinguish a true memory from a false one? Can memories be selectively enhanced, or erased? Are memories altered by emotion, by stress by drugs? These questions and more are addressed in this book.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
General issues about memory -- Introduction: memory in the legal context / L. Nadel & W. Sinnott-Armstrong -- Memory in eyewitnesses -- Inconsistencies between law and the limits of human cognition : the case of eyewitness identification / D. Davis & E.F. Loftus -- Lineup procedures in eyewitness identification / S.D. Gronlund, C.A Goodsell & S.M. Andersen -- The curious complexity between confidence and accuracy in reports from memory / H.L. Roediger, III, J.H. Wixted & K.A. DeSoto -- Evaluating confidence in our memories : results and implications from neuroimaging and eye movement monitoring studies of metamemory / E.F. Chua -- Evidentiary independence? : how evidence collected early in an investigation influences the collection and interpretation of additional evidence / L.E. Hasel -- Memory in jurors -- Memory and jury deliberation : the benefits and costs of collective remembering / W. Hirst, A. Coman & C.B. Stone -- Realizing the potential of instructions to disregard / L.J. Demaine -- The memory of jurors : enhancing trial performance / A. Sandberg, W. Sinnott-Armstrong & J. Suvalescu -- Neuroimaging memories -- Neuroimaging of true, false, and imaginary memories : findings and implications / D.L. Schacter, J. Chamberlain, B. Gaesser & K.D. Gerlach -- Detection of concealed stored memories with psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods / J.P. Rosenfeld, G.B. Shakhar & G. Ganis -- Legislative issues -- Criminalizing cognitive enhancement at the blackjack table / A. Kolber -- Monetizing memory science : neuroscience and the future of ptsd litigation / F.X. Shen -- Ten things the law, and others, should know about human memory / M.A. Conway.
Memory
Science and law
Learning
Criminology
Jurisprudence
Mental Processes
Social Control, Formal
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Sociology
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Criminal Law
Memory
Social Sciences
Psychology