Oculomotor examination of the weapon focus effect: does a gun automatically engage visual attention?
A person is less likely to be accurately remembered if they appear in a visual scene with a gun, a result that has been termed the weapon focus effect (WFE). Explanations of the WFE argue that weapons engage attention because they are unusual and/or threatening, which causes encoding deficits for th...
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2013-12-11.
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