Summarize the research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

As a whole, research on eyewitness testimony has found it to be unreliable, and easily modified. Each time a memory is discussed, the opportunity occurs for new information to encroach on the eyewitnesses' original memory and modify it when it is recalled at a later time. It would be useful to remember when we consider eyewitness testimony that our memory is not a video-recorder, it is error prone and especially susceptible to reconstruction using schemata and information that is presented after the event that is witnessed. Experts argue it should not be the only form of evidence in a trial.