Ciara Greene

2 weeks ago | psyche.co | Gillian Murphy |Ciara Greene

by Gillian Murphy and Ciara Greene, memory researchersGillian Murphy is an associate professor in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork and a funded investigator at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. She is co-author of Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (2025). Ciara Greene is an associate professor in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory Laboratory.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gillian Murphy |Ciara Greene

1 Introduction What is a memory? Can an outside observer really ascertain whether someone is remembering an event? How can they do so reliably? These are challenging questions that we face as memory researchers, particularly when we try to tease apart true and false memories and beliefs. In this issue, Andrews and Brewin (2024) reanalysed a portion of the data from our recent rich false memory study (Murphy, Dawson, et al. 2023) and developed a novel coding scheme based on counting reported details.