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Helen Paterson’s work on advancing how police and courts understand memory is recognised in prestigious Eureka prizes
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Helen Paterson’s work on advancing how police and courts understand memory is recognised in prestigious Eureka prizes
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Memory is an imperfect thing: research shows that recollections of single events – a purse being snatched, say – differ to those about repeated or ongoing events, such as incidents of domestic and family violence.
“What our research shows is that compared to a single-event witness, a repeated-event witness tends to report more gist-like details, the overall details of what typically would happen, and the things that remain constant between the episodes,” said Helen Paterson, an associate professor in forensic psychology at the University of Sydney.
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Source: The Guardian · Donna Lu. Published 3 Sept 2026, 12:30 pm.
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