Revisiting the relation between contingency awareness and attention: Evaluative conditioning relies on a contingency focus

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-175

  Kattner, Florian ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Contingency awareness; Contingency focus; Distraction; Evaluative conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING; EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84858198190     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.565036     Document Type: Article

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