Blinded by Emotion: Target Misses Follow Attention Capture by Arousing Distractors in RSVP

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 465-477

  Arnell, Karen M ^a   Killman, Kassandra V ^a   Fijavz, David ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

arousal; attention; attentional blink; emotion; RSVP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; SEXUAL AROUSAL; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548851994     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.465     Document Type: Article

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