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Can you trust your own memory? Catherine and Neil discuss why the police and the legal system are concerned about eyewitness testimony.

This week's question

In which part of the brain is there an area dedicated to remembering faces? Is it...

a) the temporal lobe?

b) the hypothalamus?

or c) the cerebellum?

You'll hear the answer at the end of the programme.

Vocabulary

contaminated
made impure through contact with an outside source

at knifepoint
under threat of being stabbed

Transcript

Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript.

OK. So in which part of the brain is there an area dedicated to remembering faces? Is it...
a) the temporal lobe?
b) the hypothalamus?
or c) the cerebellum?

Well, I have no idea. But I'll say a) the temporal lobe.
OK and we'll find out whether you chose the correct answer later on in the show. But let's talk more about how our memories can play tricks on us. We tend to think of memory as being like a video recorder that we can replay and recall again and again as it originally occurred. But memory doesn't work like that. It's a reconstructive process.

Yes. We reconstruct - or rebuild - memories, and during this process, they may be distorted - or changed - for different reasons. Let's listen to Tim Valentine, retired professor of psychology at Goldsmith's College at the University of London, talking about this.

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Tim Valentine, retired professor of psychology at Goldsmith's College, University of London
From all those TV dramas you've watched you'll be familiar with the forensic scenes of crimes officers wearing their paper suits and covering their shoes and their hair to make sure they don't introduce their DNA or physical traces onto the crime scene. So that in the same way anybody who has any interaction with a witness needs to make sure that they don't distort their memory.

That's right. A crime scene is a place where a crime was committed. And contaminated means 'made impure through contact with an outside source'. So for example, if an officer touches something without gloves on, they introduce new information. And once this has happened, you can't get back to the original information.

And it isn't only police questioning that can distort memory. Other factors such as stress can affect your ability to recall events accurately. For example, if you're being held at knifepoint you are likely to be concentrating on the weapon rather than on your attacker's face. And at knifepoint means 'under threat of being stabbed'.

So why do we place so much importance on eyewitness accounts?

Eyewitness accounts can sound very convincing in court - but in fact according to research, they are often unreliable. Karen Newirth, senior attorney at the Innocence Project in New York, explains this further.

Karen Newirth, senior attorney at the Innocence Project, New York
First, I think it's sort of natural for people to want to believe that memory can be accurate. It's very disconcerting to think that we're going through life relying on our memories and then to learn how mistaken they can be - and how frequently. Second is that the testimony of eyewitnesses has become a very expected piece of criminal trial so jurors sort of anticipate it, look for it, and tend to believe it.

So we like to trust in our ability to remember things accurately. And it's disconcerting to learn that memory is frequently inaccurate. And disconcerting means...

Karen Newirth also says that people expect eyewitness testimony - or spoken statements - in court. Do you think that's true, Catherine?

Catherine
Yes, there are. For example, in a police line-up you can prevent eyewitnesses receiving information from the officer giving instructions, which might influence their response.

Just a bit, yes. So, now we're running out of time, so let's move onto the answer to today's quiz question. Remember I asked: in which part of the brain is there an area dedicated to recognizing faces? Is it...
a) the temporal lobe?
b) the hypothalamus?
or c) the cerebellum?

Fascinating! Now, here are the words we learned today...
reconstruct
distorted
crime scene
contaminated
at knifepoint
disconcerting
testimony

Both
Bye!

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Can you trust your own memory? Catherine and Neil discuss why the police and the legal system are concerned about eyewitness testimony. In which part of the brain is there an area dedicated to remembering faces? Is it... a) the temporal lobe? b) the hypothalamus? or c) the cerebellum?

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