THE MODULATION OF COVERT ATTENTION BY EMOTION: AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL VERSUS NEUTRAL VALENCED CUES IN A COVERT ATTENTION PARADIGM

Selective attention has been studied extensively and it is shown, for example, that individuals with conditions such as anxiety show attention bias to threat-related stimuli. It has been proposed that humans are predisposed or that it is naturally adaptive to selectively attend to emotional stimuli...

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Main Author: Hammersley, Jonathan
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2010
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/155
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=dissertations