Space Shuttle Challenger
the classic example of
Ulric Neisser’s account
of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbour in 1941
demonstrating that key
points of the memory
can in fact be wrong.
He recounted listening
to a baseball game at
the time of the attack
when in fact no baseball games were being
played at that time.
People who were asked
about their memories
of the Challenger
shuttle disaster in 1986
also showed discrepancies with the actual
events and what they
were actually doing
at the time. It seems
possible that FBMs can
have
discrepancies,
so even the smallest
incorrect detail could
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have implications in
the testimony of people
who witnessed a crime.
Researchers at Duke
University interviewed
participants days after
the 9/11 attacks about
their memories of the
event alongside other
mundane events that
happened that same
day.