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Oculomotor Examination of the Weapon Focus Effect: Does a Gun Automatically Engage Visual Attention?

BACKGROUND: 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 def...

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Autores principales: Flowe, Heather D., Hope, Lorraine, Hillstrom, Anne P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081011