Multimodal task-irrelevant threat information and their effects on visual search tasks.
We investigated the effect of threatening distractors on attentional executive control. While previous visual search studies found that task-irrelevant threatening stimuli are harder to ignore than neutral or other valenced stimuli, they have only used static pictures that do not resemble real-life...
| Publicado en: | Visual Cognition Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 217 - 233 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2025
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