When emotion blinds: A spatiotemporal competition account of emotion-induced blindness

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Lingling ^a   Kennedy, Briana L ^b   Most, Steven B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Emotion; Emotion induced blindness; Perception; Spatiotemporal competition; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870911850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00438     Document Type: Article

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