“…One aim of an investigative interview is to encourage interviewees to recall and report all relevant information they can remember (Bull, ; Fisher, ). There are several ways to help people to remember and report more information in the course of an interview, one of which is by asking people to close their eyes while discussing their activities (Perfect et al, ; Vredeveldt, Baddeley, & Hitch, ; Vredeveldt, Baddeley, & Hitch, ; Vredeveldt, Hitch, & Baddeley, ; Vredeveldt & Penrod, ). Fisher and Geiselman () argued that closing the eyes facilitates recall because it leads to more focussed concentration and blocks out visual (and perhaps other) sources of interference (see also Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, ; Wagstaff et al, ).…”