Ignoring real faces: Effects of valence, threat, and salience

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 725-745

  Blagrove, Elisabeth ^a   Watson, Derrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Faces; Valence; Visual marking; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899017577     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0572-4     Document Type: Article

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