Fearful faces have a sensory advantage in the competition for awareness
Only a subset of visual signals give rise to a conscious percept. Threat signals, such as fearful faces, are particularly salient to human vision. Research suggests that fearful faces are evaluated without awareness and preferentially promoted to conscious perception. This agrees with evolutionary t...
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| Language: | English |
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2015-07.
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