Julia Shaw

And especially if you are helping each other to remember, like in a relationship, you'll have someone who's better at remembering certain kinds of details, maybe names or what happened or what you were doing, and the other person's better at when it happened.

And so you can have these complementary memories that come in in social situations, and you can then have more details that are remembered after.

Or distorted.

Yeah.

But you can also sometimes go back to your original account and go, actually, no, that was a bit wrong.

And so my, as again, an analytical person and someone who works as an expert witness on memory cases, I just want to see all the versions.

I want your version history.

I want the complete version history of your memory.

And then I can tell you whether I think things have gone wrong here.

And if so, why?

Well, there's different people having very different memories of the same experience and there's the same person having different memories of the same experience.

And so I work in both in some ways as an expert witness, but mostly in the individual changing their story in a dramatic way.

So a witness or an alleged victim saying that they, you know, having X story the first time they go to the police and then three years later having a very different, sometimes categorically different account.

And the question is...

Were they just too shy initially to say what really happened?

Were they under pressure from other people?

Were they not really remembering?

You know, why has it changed?

Or could it be that they have been undergone some really problematic, like, hypnotherapy or something?

just shady therapy in general that has like convinced them that things are maybe much worse than they initially remembered.