Dr Matthew Gerrie

Research Fellow

Manager, Innocence Project New Zealand

Areas of Interest

Cognitive Psychology, Psychology-Law, Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Identification

I study human memory errors and their impact on the psychology of law. In particular, I am interested in how witnesses remember (and sometimes misremember) details from a crime scene and factors that lead to eyewitness misidentification. I am the manager of the Innocence Project New Zealand, a joint project with University of Otago. At the Innocence Project, we investigate possible miscarriages of justice in the New Zealand. If you are interested in lodging a case with the Innocence Project or helping us investigate cases, please email IPNZ@vuw.ac.nz

Selected Publications

Sobel, K.V., Gerrie, M.P., Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (in press). Individual differences in working memory capacity and visual search: The roles of top-down and bottom-up processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Gerrie, M.P., & Garry, M. (in press). Individual differences in working memory capacity affect false memories for missing aspects of events. Memory.

Gerrie, M.P., Belcher, L.E., & Garry, M. (2006). 'Mind the Gap': False memories for missing aspects of an event. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Garry, M., & Gerrie, M.P. (2005). When photographs create false memories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 321-325.

Strange, D., Gerrie, M.P., & Garry, M. (2005). A few seemingly harmless routes to a false memory. Cognitive Processing, 6, 237-242.

Gerrie, M.P., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F. (2005). False memories. In N. Brewer and K. Williams (Eds.), Psychology and Law: An Empirical Perspective. New York: Guilford Press (pp. 222-253).