Conditioned fear modulates visual selection

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 529-536

  Mulckhuyse, Manon ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   Van der Stigchel, Stefan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion; Eye movement; Fear conditioning; Saccade curvature; Visual selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; EXPECTANCY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEAR; HUMANS; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878961702     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031076     Document Type: Article

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