
Ep19 "How far can you trust your memory?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
The Fallibility of Eyewitness Testimony
After Ronald Cotton was released from prison, his ex-girlfriend felt guilty. She reached out to him and he said that he had already forgiven her. The two women have since written a book together about the fallibility of eyewitness testimony. They travel around giving talks on how memory is not like a videotape but an internal reconstruction.
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