Lee Barry's List: context

• memory may have been skewed by the fact that his image was the only one in color.
• wrongly convicted due to the unreliability of human memory
• growing interest in the field of neurolaw, which examines the intersection of neuroscience and legal systems, the desire for tools that can objectively assess the accuracy of memories is palpable
• The team will convert its research into guides for judges and law schools, detailing what current neuroscience technologies—particularly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—can and cannot reveal about the information in a person’s mind.
• people tend to be poor judges of the quality of their memories.
• brief episodes of memory, like in many criminal cases, poor lighting, passage of time, biased or suggestive questioning all can produce an erroneous memory
• fMRI might be better used to determine how—rather than what— a person remembers.
• constructive remembering, called “semantic generation,” could lead a witness to remember something that never happened

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