The detection of fear-relevant stimuli: are guns noticed as quickly as snakes?
Potentially dangerous stimuli are important contenders for the capture of visual-spatial attention, and it has been suggested that an evolved fear module is preferentially activated by stimuli that are fear relevant in a phylogenetic sense (e.g., snakes, spiders, angry faces). In this study, a visua...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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