Better safe than sorry: Simplistic fear-relevant stimuli capture attention

It has been consistently demonstrated that fear-relevant images capture attention preferentially over fear-irrelevant images. Current theory suggests that this faster processing could be mediated by an evolved module that allows certain stimulus features to attract attention automatically, prior to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Forbes, S., Purkis, H., Lipp, Ottmar
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30644