Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other witnessed dramatic event, including memory for a perpetrator's face. Eyewitness testimony is often relied upon in the judicial system, but its accuracy is sometimes questioned, because many factors acting during the encoding and retrieval of the witnessed event can adversely affect how the memory is created and maintained; researchers have found evidence that eyewitness memory is fallible.
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Core ClaimEyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other witnessed dramatic event. 1 Classification
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Loftus's eyewitness memory research demonstrated that post-event information can distort eyewitness recollection.
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1. Eyewitness memory (Wikipedia)
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Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other witnessed dramatic event.
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Eyewitness testimony is often relied upon in the judicial system.
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