Better safe than sorry: Simplistic fear-relevant stimuli capture attention

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 794-804

  Forbes, Sarah J ^a   Purkis, Helena M ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal; Attentional capture; Fear relevance; Outline contour; Silhouette; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; SNAKE; SPIDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79961224017     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.514710     Document Type: Article

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