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Categorical Perception And Crime

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Sometimes the problem begins while the original event is still occurring, that is, while the memory is being encoded. If the perception of an event is inaccurate, then it cannot be remembered accurately (The interested reader can link to interesting Scholarpedia pieces on categorical perception and event perception). Consider the eyewitness who is asked to accurately remember a crime; she may have seen the perpetrator only briefly, in the dark, from a distance, and while experiencing stress – all conditions that reduce her ability to see him in the first place, which will in turn dramatically reduce her later ability to identify

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