Affective significance enhances covert attention: Roles of anxiety and word familiarity

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1669-1686

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Eysenck, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Eye movements; Parafoveal; Priming; Threat; Word familiarity

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 54549090002     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701743700     Document Type: Article

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