Spiders crawl easily through the bottleneck: visual working memory for negative stimuli.

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The special status of spiders in the attentional bottleneck and visual working memory (VWM) was studied. 23 spider-fearfuls (SF) and 23 non-anxious controls (NACs) participated in a serial VWM-task. Each trial showed a 4 x 4 matrix of images and 5 of these were subsequently cued for 150 ms each. Afterwards, one of the 16 displayed images was hidden and probed. The spider image was included in the string of 5 cued images, among the 11 uncued items, or not at all. For both groups, memory was be...

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Authors: Reinecke, A; Rinck, M; Becker, E

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 438-449
• Publication date: 2006-08-01
• DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.438
• EISSN: 1931-1516
• ISSN: 1528-3542
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Humans; Adolescent; Reactive Inhibition; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Discrimination Learning; Serial Learning; Proactive Inhibition; Cues; Attention; Orientation; Adult; Male; Animals; Reference Values; Spiders; Fear; Memory, Short-Term; Arousal