Emotional responses in spider fear are closely related to picture awareness

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-260

  Peira, Nathalie ^a,b   Golkar, Armita ^b,d   Öhman, Arne ^b,d   Anders, Silke ^a,c   Wiens, Stefan ^a,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Fear; Heart rate; Masking; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FLOWER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPIDER; VISUAL MASKING;

EID: 84857330247     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.579087     Document Type: Article

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