Dissociating spatial attention and awareness in emotion-induced blindness

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-305

  Most, Steven B ^a   Wang, Lingling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional competition; emotion; emotion induced blindness; perception; spatial attention; visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954558368     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610397665     Document Type: Article

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