Visual search with animal fear-relevant stimuli: A tale of two procedures

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-32

  Waters, Allison M ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^b   Randhawa, Ranjiv S ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Attentional bias; Fear relevance; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952103795     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9191-8     Document Type: Article

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