Orienting and emotional perception: Facilitation, attenuation, and interference

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Keil, Andreas ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; Emotion; Interference; Orienting; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869847625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00493     Document Type: Article

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