The presence of threat affects saccade trajectories

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 284-299

  Schmidt, Lisette J ^a   Belopolsky, Artem V ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Eye movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISION;

EID: 84859621334     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.658885     Document Type: Article

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