Does the sight of physical threat induce a tactile processing bias? Modality-specific attentional facilitation induced by viewing threatening pictures.

Threatening stimuli are thought to bias spatial attention toward the location from which the threat is presented. Although this effect is well-established in the visual domain, little is known regarding whether tactile attention is similarly affected by threatening pictures. We hypothesised that tac...

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Main Authors: Van Damme, S, Gallace, A, Spence, C, Crombez, G, Moseley, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009