Processing emotional stimuli: Comparison of saccadic and manual choice-reaction times

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 930-954

  Bannerman, Rachel L ^a   Milders, Maarten ^a   Sahraie, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotional faces; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 68449091990     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802243303     Document Type: Article

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