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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- article
- Published
- 2001-09-01
- Cited by
- 2,573
- References
- 69
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- Open access
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Keywords
Psychology, Stimulus (psychology), Cognitive psychology, Unconditioned stimulus, Fear conditioning
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