Eye movement registration as a continuous index of attention deployment: Data from a group of spider anxious students

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 419-434

  Hermans, Dirk ^a   Vansteenwegen, Deb ^a   Eelen, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0000125318     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999399379249     Document Type: Article

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