Venom, speed, and caution: Effects on performance in a visual search task

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 365-377

  Sulikowski, Danielle ^a,b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Caution; Threat detection; Visual search tasks

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE;

EID: 84862487017     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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