Why does a red snake in the grass capture your attention?

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 224-232

  Huang, Yang Ming ^a   Yeh, Yei Yu ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Affective salience; Attention; Perceptual salience; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SNAKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955129082     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022578     Document Type: Article

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