Spiders crawl easily through the bottleneck: Visual working memory for negative stimuli

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 438-449

  Reinecke, Andrea ^a   Rinck, Mike ^b   Becker, Eni S ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Fear of spiders; Serial position effects; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; REACTIVE INHIBITION; REFERENCE VALUES; SERIAL LEARNING; SPIDERS;

EID: 33748302111     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.438     Document Type: Article

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