Masked Fearful Faces Modulate the Orienting of Covert Spatial Attention

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 522-529

  Carlson, Joshua M ^a   Reinke, Karen S ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

backward masking; faces; fear, and emotion; spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 50849120734     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012653     Document Type: Article

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