Out of control: The role of spider movement and intolerance of uncertainty in spider fear

M Grill, A Haberkamp - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When asking spider-phobic individuals what they find most frightening about spiders, many
report spiders' unique movement characteristics. Here, we experimentally tested whether …

[PDF][PDF] Eye movement patterns in response to fear-and disgust-eliciting reptiles

B Vobrubová, K Sedláčková, M Janovcová… - Acta Soc. Zool …, 2023 - researchgate.net
We tested the hypothesis that human reaction to snakes is very specific when compared to
other reptiles. Using the eye-tracker, we measured free-gazing pattern of 61 respondents …

Testing the magnocellular-pathway advantage in facial expressions processing for consistency over time

M Zeev-Wolf, Y Rassovsky - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability to identify facial expressions rapidly and accurately is central to human evolution.
Previous studies have demonstrated that this ability relies to a large extent on the …

Demonstrating perception without visual awareness: Double dissociations between priming and masking

M Biafora - 2022 - kluedo.ub.rptu.de
A double dissociation impressively demonstrates that visual perception and visual
awareness can be independent of each other and do not have to rely on the same source of …