April 16, 2013 – San Francisco – Brain scans are increasingly able to reveal whether or not you believe you remember some person or event in your life. In a new study presented at a cognitive neuroscience meeting today, researchers used fMRI brain scans to detect whether a person recognized scenes from their own […]
Our Fallible Memories in the Courtroom: Q&A with Daniel Schacter
“…cognitive neuroscience research could help jurors and other participants in the legal system to better understand why it is that memory does not operate like a video recorder, and why it is sometimes prone to error and distortion.” Neuroscience is in the legal spotlight more than ever before, with the courts increasingly considering science-based evidence […]