Does Threat Have an Advantage After All? – Proposing a Novel Experimental Design to Investigate the Advantages of Threat-Relevant Cues in Visual Processing

The automatic visual attentional procession of threatening stimuli over non-threatening cues has long been a question. The so-called classical visual search task (VST) has quickly become the go-to paradigm to investigate this. However, the latest results showed that the confounding results could ori...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Andras N. Zsido, Arpad Csatho, Andras Matuz, Diana Stecina, Akos Arato, Orsolya Inhof, Gergely Darnai
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Subjects:	fear visual search perception detection evolutionary relevance attention
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02217/full