Does the sight of physical threat induce a tactile processing bias?. Modality-specific attentional facilitation induced by viewing threatening pictures

Brain Research

Volumn 1253, Issue , 2009, Pages 100-106

  Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Gallace, Alberto ^b   Spence, Charles ^c   Crombez, Geert ^a   Moseley, G Lorimer ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Crossmodal attention; Physical threat; Somatotopic representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; THREAT; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249139531     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.072     Document Type: Article

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