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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults
 

Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults

Article DOI: 10.3791/52190 08:25 min
October 19th, 2014

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Summary October 19th, 2014

Here we describe a touch-screen visual search paradigm that can be used to study threat detection across the lifespan. The paradigm has already been used in various studies demonstrating that both children and adults detect threatening stimuli like snakes, spiders, and angry faces faster than non-threatening stimuli.

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