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SUBMITTER: van Boxtel JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359369 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20120523 5
The ability to find and evade fighting persons in a crowd is potentially life-saving. To investigate how the visual system processes threatening actions, we employed a visual search paradigm with threatening boxer targets among emotionally-neutral walker distractors, and vice versa. We found that a boxer popped out for both intact and scrambled actions, whereas walkers did not. A reverse correlation analysis revealed that observers' responses clustered around the time of the "punch", a signature ...[more]