Toward and away from spiders: Eye-movements in spider-fearful participants

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 725-733

  Gerdes, Antje B M ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a   Alpers, Georg W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional disengagement; Automatic attention; Eye movements; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOPHOBIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67449124607     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-008-0167-8     Document Type: Article

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