Running from William James' Bear: A Review of Preattentive Mechanisms and their Contributions to Emotional Experience

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 667-696

  Robinson, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1080/026999398379493     Document Type: Review

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