Eye-catching: Right hemisphere attentional bias for emotional pictures

Laterality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-178

  Alpers, Georg W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; BLINKING; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40149085403     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701779247     Document Type: Article

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