Primacy of emotional vs. semantic scene recognition in peripheral vision

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1358-1375

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Avero, Pedro ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Peripheral vision; Primacy; Recognition; Scene perception; Subcortical

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855677603     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.544448     Document Type: Article

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