When eyes lock onto venomous cucumbers: Attentional dwelling on threat-related stimuli

People are known to orient their attention automatically to threatening stimuli such as angry faces, snakes, or spiders. And once locked onto a threatening stimulus, people seemingly have a hard time looking away from the threat--at least some of the time. Recent research uses eye movements to examine why this might happen.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 12, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news