Spider phobics more easily see a spider in morphed schematic pictures

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a,b   Buchmann, Arlette ^a   Lauche, Romy ^a   Kolassa, Stephan ^a   Partchev, Ivailo ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a   Musial, Frauke ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FLOWER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER BIAS; PERCEPTION; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPIDER; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 38749120650     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-3-59     Document Type: Article

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