Michael Greenberg has a long and interesting review of a new book by Sue
Halpern called _Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the
Front Lines of Memory Research_. The review is quite positive about the
book.
I especially liked this from the review:
"Halpern recounts the case of an Australian forensics expert named Donald
Thomson who was a guest on a television show devoted to exploring the
unreliability of eyewitness testimony:
Not long afterward [Thomson] was summoned to a police precinct, put
in a lineup, and identified by a woman as the man who had raped her.
Though he had an incontrovertible alibi-he was on national television at
the time of the attack and seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers-he
was charged with the crime on the basis of her unwavering eyewitness
testimony. It was only later, when an investigator discovered that the
woman's television had been on during the assault, that it became clear
that in the midst of her trauma, the woman had conflated Thomson's face
with that of the rapist."
The review is in _the New York Review of Books_, 35, December 4 [that's
right], 2008 at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22110
Stephen
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