Evidence has been found to support the theory that, "emotional situations can send your visual cortex into overdrive". This implies that in moments of heightened emotion a person's attention and perception of the world around them can be very sensitive to details that might otherwise have been over looked. This theory does not hold true if the person has damage to the part of the brain called the amygdala, which is one of the main centers for emotional processing. In which case the person would mentally know that they should feel the emotion, but the body would not react in a similar and related fashion. For instance, the person would be afraid, but there palms would not become sweaty.
What an incredible defense mechanism bordering on a "super power". As soon as our brain can identify that we are in danger our body goes into a form of cruise control that allows us to see, hear, and focus faster than we could normally.
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