Mastering Memory
One of the reasons lawyers say eye-witness testimony is notoriously unreliable ist that the human memory is flawed. Really flawed. Let’s call this foray into memory “The Rhetoric of Memory.”
“Flaws in memory can arise at different points in the process,” explained Daniel Schacter of Harvard University,” author of Mystery of Memory: Why It’s Not Perfect and The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remebersin an article on livescience.com.