Fuzzy Picture Processing: Effects of Size Reduction and Blurring on Emotional Processing

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 352-363

  De Cesarei, Andrea ^a   Codispoti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

arousal; attention; emotion; spatial frequencies; stimulus size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PICTURE; SIZE REDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949109146     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.352     Document Type: Article

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