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Do witnesses of functional/dissociative seizures recall them accurately? A UK experimental study of semiology recall at clinically relevant time points with a pilot intervention

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Different causes of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) carry distinct risks and require different management. Early accurate diagnosis is essential to guide counseling, investigation, and referral. In routine practice, frontline clinicians and specialists often rely on eyewitness accounts, yet the reliability of witness testimony
Adam John Noble, Steven Lane, Amina Al‐Khaddar, Annabelle Blundy, Brenna Dubois, Chloe Pearce, Laszlo Sztriha, Graham Powell, Alistair Wardrope, Rajiv Mohanraj, Anthony Guy Marson, Markus Reuber   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosing Eyewitness Accuracy [PDF]

, 2015
Eyewitnesses frequently mistake innocent people for the perpetrator of an observed crime. Such misidentifications have led to the wrongful convictions of many people. Despite this, no reliable method yet exists to determine eyewitness accuracy.
Russ, Andrew
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Individual differences in eyewitness accuracy across multiple lineups of faces

Cognitive Research, 2018
Theories of face recognition in cognitive psychology stipulate that the hallmark of accurate identification is the ability to recognize a person consistently, across different encounters.
Andrew J. Russ, Melanie Sauerland, Charlotte E. Lee, Markus Bindemann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electroclinical classification of idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndromes at initial evaluation: A prospective multicenter study

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To determine the extent to which electroclinical information available at initial evaluation allows classification of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) syndromes, and to assess the contributions of seizure semiology and age at seizure onset to early syndromic diagnosis.
Omar Nawfal, Heba Samara, Wassim Nasreddine, Fatima Jaafar, Mahasen Reda, Tarek Halabi, Ahmad Beydoun   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing theories of eyewitness identification

, 2022
Psychological researchers have put forward several theories of eyewitness identification behavior, each of which offers differing hypotheses relating to eyewitness memory and identification task difficulty.
Kym Michelle McCormick
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The neuroscience of face processing and identification in eyewitnesses and offenders

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013
Humans are experts in face perception. We are better able to distinguish between the differences of faces and their components than between any other kind of objects.
Nicole-Simone eWerner, Sina eKühnel, Hans J. Markowitsch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Reform of the evidential rules for eyewitness identification in the United States – advice from the antipodes

, 2020
The Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) in the United States comprise a number of short provisions that are set out in plain language and are largely free of technical terms.
Hemming, Andrew
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source