Anticipated Attack Slows Responses in a Cued Virtual Attack Emotional Sternberg Task

Threatening stimuli have varying effects, including reaction time (RT) increase in working memory tasks. This could reflect disruption of working memory or, alternatively, a reversible state of freezing. In the current series of experiments, reversible slowing due to anticipated threat was studied u...

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Main Authors: Thomas E. Gladwin, Matthijs Vink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2021-02-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1896