Facilitation and interference of the automatic information processing on a reaction time task to threat-relevant stimuli

Psicothema

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 332-337

  Marcos, José L ^a   Redondo, Jaime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

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