Oculomotor examination of the weapon focus effect: does a gun automatically engage visual attention?
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 the other items in the visual scene. Previous WFE research has always embedded the weapon and nonweapon objects within a larger context that provides information about an actor's intention to use the object. As such, it is currently unknown whether a gun automatically engages attention to a greater extent than other objects independent of the context in which it is presented
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Flowe, Heather D.
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Hope, Lorraine
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Hillstrom, Anne P.
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11 December 2013
Flowe, Heather D.
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Hope, Lorraine
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Flowe, Heather D., Hope, Lorraine and Hillstrom, Anne P.
(2013)
Oculomotor examination of the weapon focus effect: does a gun automatically engage visual attention?
PLoS ONE, 8 (12), .
(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081011).
Abstract
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 the other items in the visual scene. Previous WFE research has always embedded the weapon and nonweapon objects within a larger context that provides information about an actor's intention to use the object. As such, it is currently unknown whether a gun automatically engages attention to a greater extent than other objects independent of the context in which it is presented
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Published date: 11 December 2013
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