Loftus is one of the leading researchers in memory reconstruction and eyewitness inaccuracy. Memory reconstruction can be critical during the testimony of an eyewitness. Throughout Loftus's experiments she asked direct and false presupposition, must be true for the question to make sense, questions. New false information incorporated into a question may manipulate one into thinking an event occurred when it did not. For example, in experiment 3, participants watched a short film of a car accident involving a white sports car then completed a questionnaire. A question was asked about passing a barn, however a barn was not presented in the film. One week later the participants received another questionnaire, and 17.3% of the participants answered
