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Negative emotion evoked by viewing snakes has a motivating effect on cognitive processing in human children with or without intellectual disability

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It is well known that prioritization of the processing of threatening stimuli generally induces deleterious effects on task performance. However, a study recently reported that emotion (possibly fear) evoked by… Click to show full abstract

It is well known that prioritization of the processing of threatening stimuli generally induces deleterious effects on task performance. However, a study recently reported that emotion (possibly fear) evoked by viewing images of snakes exerts a facilitating effect upon making judgments of the images’ color in neurotypical adults and schoolchildren. Here, the author has attempted to confirm the relevance of this notion in children with and without intellectual disability.

Keywords: children without; without intellectual; intellectual disability; evoked viewing; effect; emotion

Journal Title: Brain and Behavior
Year Published: 2017

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