Primates are distinguished from other mammals by their heavy reliance on the visual sense,
which occurred as a result of natural selection continually favoring those individuals whose …

Twenty years ago, Öhman and Mineka's publication “The Malicious Serpent” emphasized
the selective pressure ancestral reptiles would have on early mammals' visual system …

Studies of event-related potentials in humans have established larger early posterior
negativity (EPN) in response to pictures depicting snakes than to pictures depicting other …

Consistent with the snake detection hypothesis, previous ERP studies have established a
larger early posterior negativity (EPN) in response to pictures depicting snakes than to …

According to the snake detection hypothesis (Isbell,), fear specifically of snakes may have
pushed evolutionary changes in the primate visual system allowing pre-attentional visual …

Predatory snakes are argued to have been largely responsible for the origin of primates via
selection favoring expansion of the primate visual system, and even today snakes can be …

Snakes are known as highly fear-evoking animals, eliciting preferential attention and fast
detection in humans. We examined the human fear response to snakes in the context of both …

Humans and non-human primates are extremely sensitive to snakes as exemplified by their
ability to detect pictures of snakes more quickly than those of other animals. These findings …

Snakes and angry faces are common fear stimuli and both elicit an Early Posterior Negativity
(EPN) in the event-related potential, which indicates that they capture early automatic visual …

Snakes were probably one of the earliest predators of primates, and snake images produce
specific behavioral and electrophysiological reactions in humans. Pictures of snakes evoke …