Unintentionality of affective attention across visual processing stages

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Uusberg, Andero ^a   Uibo, Helen ^a   Kreegipuu, Kairi ^a   Tamm, Maria ^a   Raidvee, Aire ^a   Allik, Jüri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Automatic affective attention; EPN; IAPS; LPP; Unintentionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891712497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00969     Document Type: Article

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