Abstract stimuli associated with threat through conditioning cannot be detected preattentively

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-430

  Batty, Martin J ^a,c   Cave, Kyle R ^a,d   Pauli, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Implicit Association Test; Threat; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT STIMULUS; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; EVALUATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SNAKE; SPIDER; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 29444447367     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.418     Document Type: Article

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