Threatening pictures induce shortened time-to-contact estimates

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 979-987

  Brendel, Esther ^a   DeLucia, Patricia R ^b   Hecht, Heiko ^a   Stacy, Ryan L ^b   Larsen, Jeff T ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective factors; Emotion; Time to collision

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STUDENT;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS;

EID: 84862637079     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0285-0     Document Type: Article

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