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Consequences and the behavioral science says in interrogating al qaeda suspects, theres a study by lawrence ellison at the university of liverpool, 181 interrogations of al qaeda-related terrorists showed that empathy, respect, and an adaptive approach ended up systematically reducing counter interrogation strategies. so thats -- >> and that generally is when you did interrogations, oversaw interrogations, that was the approach you took. >> yes. >> its sort of like a, for lack of a better word, ...

A judge will expect small changes or inconsistencies, because of the fallibility of human memory. once you create a track record of inconsistencies thats when it starts to become problematic. >> we are watching live in the courtroom now as pistorius -- up, he may be approaching the stand, soon. what you are seeing there is from yesterday. what should we expect when heap sits on the stand today and the prosecutor continues? >> well we certainly expect more of what we saw yesterday. i think throug...

What he has been testifying this week as it relates to the fans orphan on the balcony went outside to bring it in or not. whats key about that? we dont know if that is key evidence or not. we know what he is trying to do. the beginning of a very important strategy of trying to place on the record a track record of inconsistencies between his various versions of events. at different stages in the criminal process. the implication of doing that is that -- if it can be shown that an accused person ...

One of the statements versus another statement or versus his testimony in court. now, in isolation, the judge will permit some variance over time, because that accounts for the fact that human memory is never perfect. when it becomes problematic is if the state -- for pistorius, that is -- is if the state manages to establish a track record of inconsistency that then will lead the judge to infer that he is, in fact, lying, rather than simply adding additional detail to already the story that he ...

Examining a professional. a lot of these medical examiners are very brief and to the point and theyre not very revealing. bao is testifying like he just fell off a turnip truck. hes talking about let me refer to my notes on human memory. hes got a article in front about the human memory and heaven only knows whats in his handwritten notes which might include something we call brady material. if theres material in those written notes that in some way help the defense exonerate zi r zimmerman ther...

At the beginning. my name is eric candell. im interested in the mechanisms of memory storage. rather than studying the most complex memory we had to take the simple form in a simple animal. human memory is more complicated than memory of the snail, but than memory of the snail, but evolution is conservative.

My name is eric candell. im interested in the mechanisms of memory storage. rather than studying the most complex memory we had to take the simple form in a simple animal. human memory is more complicated than memory of the snail, but evolution is conservative. if it finds some set of mechanisms work it tends to retain those mechanisms in perpetuity. this marine snail is marvelous. they have the largest nerve cells in the animal kingdom and one can see them with the naked eye. my colleagues and ...

Here and that setup with the two pressure cookers. >> anybody that has any rudimentary understanding of explosives understands they need to go out and test it first. particularly when youre going with a plan to set off two devices simultaneously. clearly, whether this was one person or more than one person, whoever put that device right there, they walked up to the fence. they could be pretending that theyre cheering somebody on. they can set down something that looks like trash. they set it nex...

That creates -- >> how do you probe human memory and try to find if somebody -- you know, you dont remember anything. but its somewhere in your brain, every experience you have. how do you probe -- do you remember back when? >> it will capture -- when those images get out, there are things that, you know, in the brain that capture image that will trigger. >> remember the person with the bag. >> exactly. theyll also be able to get photographs -- im pretty confident they will have photographs of t...

Mexico. police are now trying to figure out who was herding more than 500 illegals across our border in one of the biggest human smuggling busts in human memory. welcome to "america live," im martha maccallum in for megyn kelly. they were literally packed in, hundreds of migrants hidden inside two tractor trailers in quote, inhumane conditions. mechanics condition police discovering it using high-tech scanning of the trucks. trace gallagher picks it up from there in our west coast newsroom. >> r...