Participants searched for discrepant fear-relevant pictures (snakes or spiders) in grid-pattern
arrays of fear-irrelevant pictures belonging to the same category (flowers or mushrooms) …

Previous research in visual search indicates that animal fear-relevant deviants,
snakes/spiders, are found faster among non fear-relevant backgrounds, flowers/mushrooms …

The observation that snakes and spiders are found faster among flowers and mushrooms
than vice versa and that this search advantage is independent of set size supports the notion …

Potentially dangerous stimuli are important contenders for the capture of visual-spatial
attention, and it has been suggested that an evolved fear module is preferentially activated …

Across 2 experiments, a new experimental procedure was used to investigate attentional
capture by animal fear-relevant stimuli. In Experiment 1 (N= 34), unselected participants …

Using a visual search methodology we investigated the effect of feared animal stimuli on
attention. Our results confirmed the important role of emotion on attention. All participants …

Research suggests that threatening information captures attention more rapidly than neutral
information. However, in most studies threat stimuli differ perceptually from neutral stimuli …

In a series of experiments, a visual search task was used to test the idea that biologically
relevant threatening stimuli might be recognized very quickly or capture visuo-spatial …

Twenty-four participants were given a visual search task of deciding whether all the pictures
in 3× 3 search arrays contained a target picture from a deviant category, and heart rate was …

Attentional bias to fear-relevant animals was assessed in 69 participants not preselected on
self-reported anxiety with the use of a dot probe task showing pictures of snakes, spiders …