Emotional Priming of Pop-Out in Visual Search

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-161

  Lamy, Dominique ^a   Amunts, Liana ^a   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

facial expressions of emotion; priming of pop out; repetition priming; visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 43549092876     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.2.151     Document Type: Article

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