Attentional Bias to Brief Threat-Related Faces Revealed by Saccadic Eye Movements

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 733-738

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Facial expressions; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249256318     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019354     Document Type: Article

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