This project focuses on the role of fear in hierarchical processing of fear-relevant information, and suggests that fear facilitates identification of an animal’s global configuration and interferes with identification of its local features. For example, fear of snakes is associated with faster identification of a snake in the grass, but with slower identification of the snake's type based on its body pattern.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000774.