Emotional Scenes in Peripheral Vision: Selective Orienting and Gist Processing, But Not Content Identification

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-80

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b,c   Hyönä, Jukka ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

emotional; peripheral and parafoveal vision; pictorial stimuli; semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTIONALITY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERIPHERAL VISION; RETINA FOVEA; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 39449138730     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.68     Document Type: Article

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