Emotional cues enhance the attentional effects on spatial and temporal resolution

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1071-1076

  Bocanegra, Bruno R ^a   Zeelenberg, R ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Fearful faces; Spatiotemporal resolution; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355135441     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0156-z     Document Type: Article

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