Threat and trait anxiety affect stability of gaze fixation

Biological Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-336

  Laretzaki, Georgia ^a,b   Plainis, Sotiris ^b   Vrettos, Ioannis ^b   Chrisoulakis, Anna ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis ^b   Bitsios, Panos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attention; Fixation stability; Gaze fixation; Threat; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THREAT; TRAIT ANXIETY; VIDEOOCULOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952315228     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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