How Reliable Is Your Memory? Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Loftus - TED Talk on False Memories

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and is one of the nation’s leading experts on memory. Her experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Facts, ideas, suggestions and other post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research. Loftus is also interested in psychology and law, more generally. Prof. Loftus is one of the nation’s leading experts on memory. She has been an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of cases, including the McMartin preschool molestation case, the trial of Oliver North, the trial of the officers accused in the Rodney King beating, and litigation involving Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Scooter Libby and the Duke University Lacrosse players. Read more about Dr. Loftus and other CNLM Faculty Fellows at http://memory.uci.edu