It only took 11 people to write that article.
Looking through her publication list the other day produced nothing that was written by her alone. Two was the lowest number of authors and then it seemed to be mostly in the 5 or so range. I wonder how much she actually contributes to the work, as her name was usually later in the bylines.
She’s 9th of 11 authors. That probably means she did the statistical analysis only, and others conceived of and carried out the study. Whether she learned anything about retrieving memories can only be speculated on.
It’s fairly standard, especially in ‘medical’ journal articles, to have a long list authors. Anyone whose lab, subjects or resources were used gets cited. I believe Ford fancies herself as a statistician so she probably did the data analysis - landing her name in the ‘author’ list.