Memory and Law

Lynn Nadel is Regents Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona.Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

...an excellent collection of chapters from experts in the area of memory and law. The chapters are written in a highly accessible way and provide up-todate reviews of the literature that would appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in issues surrounding memory and law. The authors make a point to offer concrete suggestions, where possible, for the application of psychological research to real-world legal contexts, and many authors provide applied examples from legal decisions and court transcripts to support empirical points. Many of the chapters also include suggestions for future research directions that have the potential to help focus the efforts of researchers to address the pressing issues in this field of study.

• Contributors ; Part I. General Issues about Memory ; Introduction: Memory in the Legal Context ; L. Nadel & W. Sinnott-Armstrong ; 1. Emotion's Impact on Memory ; E.A. Phelps ; Part II. Memory in Eyewitnesses ; 2. Inconsistencies between Law and the Limits of Human Cognition: The Case of Eyewitness Identification ; D. Davis & E.F. Loftus ; 3. Lineup Procedures in Eyewitness Identification ; S.D. Gronlund, C.A Goodsell & S.M. Andersen ; 4. The Curious Complexity between Confidence and Accuracy in Reports from Memory ; H.L. Roediger, III, J.H. Wixted & K.A. DeSoto ; 5. Evaluating Confidence in Our Memories: Results and Implications from Neuroimaging and Eye Movement Monitoring Studies of Metamemory ; E.F. Chua ; 6. Evidentiary independence?: How evidence collected early in an investigation influences the collection and interpretation of additional evidence ; L.E. Hasel ; Part III. Memory in Jurors ; 7. Memory and jury deliberation: The benefits and costs of collective remembering ; W. Hirst, A. Coman & C.B. Stone ; 8. Realizing the Potential of Instructions to Disregard ; L.J. Demaine ; 9.: The Memory of Jurors: Enhancing Trial Performance ; A. Sandberg, W. Sinnott-Armstrong & J. Suvalescu ; Part IV. Neuroimaging Memories ; 10. Neuroimaging of True, False, and Imaginary Memories: Findings and Implications ; D.L. Schacter, J. Chamberlain, B. Gaesser & K.D. Gerlach ; 11. Detection of concealed stored memories with psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods ; J.P. Rosenfeld, G.B. Shakhar & G. Ganis ; Part V. Legislative Issues ; 12. Criminalizing Cognitive Enhancement at the Blackjack Table ; A. Kolber ; 13. Monetizing Memory Science: Neuroscience and the Future of PTSD Litigation ; F.X. Shen ; CODA ; 14. Ten Things the Law, and Others, Should Know about Human Memory ; M.A. Conway