Snake fearfulness is associated with sustained competitive biases to visual snake features: Hypervigilance without avoidance

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 329-335

  Deweese, Menton McGinnis ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a   Andersen, Søren K ^b   Müller, Matthias M ^c   Keil, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Emotion; Fear; SsVEP

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SNAKE FEAR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SNAKES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904511311     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.042     Document Type: Article

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