There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy
and distortion in memory. This interest, catalyzed in part by real-life problems, marks a …

Can susceptibility to false memory and suggestion increase dramatically with age? The
authors review the theoretical and empirical literatures on this counterintuitive possibility …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

The criminal justice system relies heavily on eyewitnesses to determine the facts
surrounding criminal events. Eyewitnesses may identify culprits, recall conversations, or …

Previous research has found few quantitative differences between children with high-
functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and well-matched controls in the length …

Episodic memories undergo qualitative changes with time, but little is known about how
different aspects of memory are affected. Different types of information in a memory, such as …

The science of cognitive development is divisible into two broad fields of inquiry:(a) the
ontogenesis of basic processes and capabilities (eg, attention, memory, processing speed …

Mechanisms for editing false events out of memory reports have fundamental implications
for theories of false memory and for best practice in applied domains in which false reports …

The process-dissociation model has stimulated important advances in the study of dual-
process conceptions of memory. The authors review some limiting properties of that model …

Psychology and Law shows how psychological research and theory can be used in a legal
context. Written with advanced undergraduate students in mind, it focuses upon the pre-trial …