Emotional effects on time-to-contact judgments: Arousal, threat, and fear of spiders modulate the effect of pictorial content

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2337-2347

  Brendel, Esther ^a   Hecht, Heiko ^a   DeLucia, Patricia R ^b   Gamer, Matthias ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Fear; Looming; Time to contact; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902551917     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3930-0     Document Type: Article

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