Does emotion processing require attention? The effects of fear conditioning and perceptual load.

This study examined the impact of perceptual load on the processing of unattended threat-relevant faces. Participants performed a central letter-classification task while ignoring irrelevant face distractors, which appeared above or below the central task. The face distractors were graded for affect...

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Main Authors: Yates, A, Ashwin, C, Fox, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010