The automatic orienting of attention to goal-relevant stimuli

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-69

  Vogt, Julia ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Moors, Agnes ^a   Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Goals; Intentions; Motivation; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 77952236059     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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