Insurance companies will also take peripheral details into account. (carinsurancequote.net)
In females, the drug did the converse, interfering with their ability to recall peripheral details, like the fact that the boy had been carrying a soccer ball. (discovermagazine.com)
As psychologist Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University observed in his 1991 book, How We Know What Isn't So, reporters almost always sharpen the central point of an article and leave out peripheral details. (scientificamerican.com)