Enhanced processing of emotional gist in peripheral vision

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 414-423

  Gutiérrez, Aída ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b   Calvo, Manuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotional; Peripheral vision; Pictorial stimuli; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149098974     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600001803     Document Type: Article

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