Emotional expressions and visual search efficiency: Specificity and effects of anxiety symptoms

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1073-1079

  Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a   Ciesielski, Bethany G ^a   Armstrong, Thomas ^a   Zald, David H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Emotional images; Facial expression; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME;

ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053972523     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021785     Document Type: Article

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