Why eyewitnesses fail | Thomas Albright | TEDxSanDiego

Trials often rely on eyewitness testimony, but the problem is that eyewitnesses are often wrong. Human vision isn’t perfect, our memory is fallible and the criminal justice system can bias testimony by tricking the brain into a false sense of certainty. As a result, innocent people are imprisoned, actual perpetrators go free and the public loses confidence in our criminal justice system.

Thomas Albright is a Professor and Conrad T. Prebys Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. As an authority on the brain bases of visual perception, visual memory and visually guided behavior, he is known for his pioneering research on the role of context in visual information processing. His work is characterized by an effort to understand how the visual system operates under sensory conditions and behavioral demands that approximate the richness of normal perceptual experience.

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