No emotional "Pop-out" effect in natural scene viewing

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1134-1143

  Acunzo, David J ^a   Henderson, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Eye movement; Scene perception; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NATURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053949538     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022586     Document Type: Article

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