What's so special about slithering serpents? Children and adults rapidly detect snakes based on their simple features

By Vanessa Lobue, J. Deloache. 2011

97 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/336f91921f1ff2899a61f04b38eea6fe4b0e71d7

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. David H. Rakison
2. P. Prokop
3. Vanessa Lobue

In Sensory Systems

1. David H. Rakison
2. Jana Fančovičová
3. P. Prokop
4. Vanessa Lobue

In Social Psychology

1. Jana Fančovičová
2. David H. Rakison
3. P. Prokop
4. Vanessa Lobue

Citations in the corpus

• What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli (2013, background): “For example, several additional studies report that preschool children more quickly detect both color and black and white images of snakes versus flowers and frogs (Hayakawa et al., 2011; LoBue & DeLoache, 2011; Masataka, Hayakawa, & Kawai, 2010).”
• Does colour matter? The influence of animal warning coloration on human emotions and willingness to protect them (2013, background): “…were able to distinguish dangerous animals from harmless animals according to their visual appearance (Prokop et al., 2010b), similarly as adults (Lobue & Deloache, 2011), thus we suggest that a replication of this experiment with adults Animal Conservation 16 (2013) 458–466 © 2013 The…”