A reversal of the search asymmetry favouring negative schematic faces

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 981-1016

  Horstmann, Gernot ^a   Becker, Stefanie I ^b   Bergmann, Steffi ^a   Burghaus, Ludger ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Attention; Emotion; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SEARCH ASYMMETRY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 77954634981     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280903435709     Document Type: Article

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