Objective
The upsurge of interest in memory accuracy in the past three decades has produced extensive evidence for the fallibility and malleability of witness memory. In parallel, reliance on erroneous eyewitness testimony has been shown to be the most common cause of false convictions of innocent people. A question of crucial importance is how can we, as scientists, provide legal personnel with tools that can help them in diagnosing the reliability of a witness report?
This is an enormous challenge given the abundant demonstrations of false memories that are endorsed by rememberers with strong conviction. Police investigators, judges and jurors typically rely on subjective intuitions and naïve theories in deciding whether a witness' memory report is trustworthy. Unfortunately, these intuitions have been shown to be largely misguided. The goal of this proposal is to develop objective and effective means of assessing the extent to which a particular eyewitness memory report can be relied on as evidence. To overcome the formidable theoretical and methodological challenges that this goal imposes, in this project, experts from the fields of Memory research, Forensic Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Law join forces in a concerted, interdisciplinary effort, based on cutting-edge research in each discipline.
The consortium will adopt an integrated multi-pronged approach, using both correlational and experimental designs to examine potential predictors of memory accuracy, including content analyses, phenomenological (reality-monitoring) indices, metacognitive quantity-accuracy profile measures, and neuropsychological and brain-imaging data, while also taking into account possibly stable individual differences in some or all of these measures. Further key innovations concern the development of more sophisticated methods of assessing memory correspondence.
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FP6-2005-NEST-PATH
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HAIFA
Israel
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