Does Threat Have an Advantage After All? – Proposing a Novel Experimental Design to Investigate the Advantages of Threat-Relevant Cues in Visual Processing

Does Threat Have an Advantage After All? – Proposing a Novel Experimental Design to Investigate the Advantages of Threat-Relevant Cues in Visual Processing

The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task (VST) has quickly become the go-to paradigm to investigate this. However, the latest results showed that the confounding results could ori...

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Main Authors: Andras N. Zsido, Arpad Csatho, Andras Matuz, Diana Stecina, Akos Arato, Orsolya Inhof, Gergely Darnai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
fear
visual search
perception
detection
evolutionary relevance
attention
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02217/full

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