Memory Reconstruction Expert Witnesses

Brooklyn, New York

Psychology, Forensic Psychology - Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Misidentification, Habits, Behavioral Science, Episodic Memory, False Memory, Memory Reconstruction, Memory Bias, Misinformation Effect, Memory Confidence, Source Misattribution, Jury Misconceptions, Memory Reliability

I am a Cognitive Neuroscientist specializing in memory, learning, and decision making. I provide expert witness testimony on the complexities of eyewitness accounts, including issues related to false memories, the misattribution effect, memory reconstruction, and the inherent susceptibility of normal memory recall to error. I earned my Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and have published extensively in leading scientific journals such as Nature Neuroscience and Nature Communications. My dissertation focused on the retroactive modulation of memory, exploring how memories can be altered by events that follow their initial encoding. Decades of research have shown that when we recall an event, memory is not replayed perfectly like a video recording. Instead, the brain reconstructs the memory each time it is remembered, relying on associative processes. This reconstruction makes memory—and therefore eyewitness testimony—vulnerable to errors and biases. Despite strong scienti...