Upper-lower visual field asymmetries in oculomotor inhibition of emotional distractors

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 209-219

  Petrova, Kalina ^a   Wentura, Dirk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curvature; Emotion; Remote distractor; Saccade; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860806589     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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