Spiders crawl easily through the bottleneck: visual working memory for negative stimuli.

The special status of spiders in the attentional bottleneck and visual working memory (VWM) was studied. 23 spider-fearfuls (SF) and 23 non-anxious controls (NACs) participated in a serial VWM-task. Each trial showed a 4 x 4 matrix of images and 5 of these were subsequently cued for 150 ms each. Aft...

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Main Authors: Reinecke, A, Rinck, M, Becker, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2006