Beware the serpent: the advantage of ecologically-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.004
Abstract: Abstract Snakes and spiders constitute fear-relevant stimuli for humans, as many species have deleterious and even fatal effects. However, snakes provoked an older and thus stronger evolutionary pressure than spiders, shaping the vision of earliest… read more here.
Keywords: ecologically relevant; awareness; accessing visual; relevant stimuli ... See more keywords