# The new science of eyewitness memory

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxUCSanDiego
- Speaker: John Wixted
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/john_wixted_the_new_science_of_eyewitness_memory)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psychology researcher, challenges this conventional wisdom with a counterintuitive finding: the problem might not be memory itself but how (and when) courts test it.

## Lectures

1. [The new science of eyewitness memory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/john_wixted_the_new_science_of_eyewitness_memory/feebbbe17d1e), 18 min (TED's player)