Attentional capture by irrelevant emotional distractor faces

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-353

  Hodsoll, Sara ^a   Viding, Essi ^a   Lavie, Nilli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Bottom up; Emotional faces; Top down; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955131017     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022771     Document Type: Article

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