Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology deals with a wide variety of issues concerning human psyche and its inner mechanisms using a set of specific methods. Among others, this discipline is exploring the issue of the effect of different visual stimuli on human attention. For example, the study of the relationship between facial configurations, facial emotion, and visual attention by Daniel Lundquist and Arne Ohman sought to determine how quickly humans react to different facial stimuli including threatening, neutral and friendly faces.The hypothesis was that humans would react more quickly to the threatening faces...
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