Danger is worse when it moves: Neural and behavioral indices of enhanced attentional capture by dynamic threatening stimuli

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 364-369

  Carretié, Luis ^a   Hinojosa, José A ^b   López Martín, Sara ^a   Albert, Jacobo ^a   Tapia, Manuel ^a   Pozo, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic attention; Emotion; ERPs; Motion; P1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849131857     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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