How can we help witnesses to remember more? It's an (eyes) open and shut case

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 314-324

  Perfect, Timothy J ^a   Wagstaff, Graham F ^b   Moore, Dawn ^a   Andrews, Blake ^a   Cleveland, Victoria ^a   Newcombe, Sarah ^a   Brisbane, Kelly Ann ^a   Brown, Leanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye closure; Eyewitness memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAW SUIT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WITNESS;

ADULT; CRIME; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; VISION;

EID: 47149100493     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-007-9109-5     Document Type: Article

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