Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode "How does your brain perceive the world?" Psychologist John Wixted says that through the course of a criminal investigation, an eyewitnesses memory can be ...

Science has provided an increasingly clear picture of the inherent limits in human visual perception and memory that can lead to errors in eyewitness identification. While the law enforcement ...

The book examines the scientific factors that influence eyewitness accuracy and explores ways research in psychology can help improve the reliability of identifications.

In the Texas criminal justice system, eyewitness misidentification is by far the leading cause of wrongful conviction – faulty eyewitness ID was implicated in 86% of Texas DNA exoneration cases. Two ...