Attentional Capture by Emotional Stimuli is Modulated by Semantic Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 328-339

  Huang, Yang Ming ^a   Baddeley, Alan ^a   Young, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attentional blink; emotion; semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 43049128901     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.2.328     Document Type: Article

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