Initial orienting towards sexually relevant stimuli: Preliminary evidence from eye movement measures

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 919-928

  Fromberger, Peter ^a   Jordan, Kirsten ^a   Von Herder, Jakob ^a   Steinkrauss, Henrike ^a   Nemetschek, Rebekka ^a   Stolpmann, Georg ^a   Müller, Jürgen Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional bias; Eye Tracking; Gaze pattern; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864086886     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-011-9816-3     Document Type: Article

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