Emotion drives attention: detecting the snake in the grass.

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Summary

Fear-relevant, but not fear-irrelevant, search was unaffected by the location of the target in the display and by the number of distractors, which suggests parallel search for fear-relevant targets and serial search for feared objects.

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2001-09-01
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Keywords

Psychology, Stimulus (psychology), Cognitive psychology, Unconditioned stimulus, Fear conditioning

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