Cognitive Neuroscience Expert Witnesses
Cognitive neuroscience expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on cognitive neuroscience. The cognitive neuroscience expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Forensic Psychology and Psychology.
Erin Kendall Braun, PhD
Memory Expert - Eyewitness Testimony
FathomCo, LLC
Brooklyn, New York
Psychology, Forensic Psychology
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Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Learning, Decision Making, Habits, Behavioral Science, Episodic Memory, False Memory, Memory Reconstruction, Memory Bias, Misinformation Effect, Memory Confidence, Source Misattribution, Jury Misconceptions
Dr. Braun is a Cognitive Neuroscientist specializing in memory, learning, and decision making. She provides expert witness testimony on the complexities of eyewitness testimony, including issues related to false memories, the misattribution effect, memory reconstruction, and the inherent susceptibility of normal memory recall to error.
Dr. Braun earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and has published in leading scientific journals such as Nature Neuroscience and Nature Communications. Her dissertation focused on the retroactive modulation of memory, exploring how memories are altered by subsequent events.
Extensive research has demonstrated that when an episode is recalled, the memory is not replayed perfectly like a video recording. Instead, the brain reconstructs the memory each time it is remembered, utilizing associative processes. This reconstruction renders memory, and consequently eyewitness testimony, vulnerable to errors and biases. Despite compelling sc...
