The NYT ran a piece today that explains some of the details behind the argument I have been making here about the reconstructive nature of memory. It includes this quote from Elizabeth Loftus, perhaps the second most influential living psychologist (behind Albert Bandura) and the leading expert on the nature of memory and its illusions:
“You’ve got all these people saying the guy’s a liar and convicting him of deliberate deception without considering an alternative hypothesis — that he developed a false memory,” said Elizabeth Loftus, a leading memory researcher and a professor of law and cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. “It’s a teaching moment, and a chance to really try to get information out there about the malleable nature of memory.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/was-brian-williams-a-victim-of-false-memory/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
