Differential impact of emotional task relevance on three indices of prioritised processing for fearful and angry facial expressions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 175-184

  Engen, Haakon G ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^b   Singer, Tania ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective prioritisation; anger; attentional blink; fear; repetition blindness; threat

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGRY FACIAL EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BLINDNESS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FATIGUE; FEARFUL FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION BLINDNESS; SEXISM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941662237     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1081873     Document Type: Article

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