Emotion and affect in mental imagery: do fear and anxiety manipulate mental rotation performance?
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Emotion and affect in mental imagery: do fear and anxiety manipulate mental rotation performance?
Little is known about the effects of fear as a basic emotion on mental rotation (MR) performance. We expected that the emotional arousal evoked by fearful stimuli presented prior to each MR trial would enhance MR performance. Regarding the influence of anxiety, high anxious participants are supposed to show slower responses and higher error rates in this specific visuo-spatial ability. Furtherm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00792