Fear influences perceived reaching to targets in audition, but not vision

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-54

  Gagnon, Kyle T ^a   Geuss, Michael N ^a   Stefanucci, Jeanine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Auditory; Emotions; Fear; Perception; Perception and action; Predator avoidance; Space perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871806183     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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