Temporal property in attentional biases towards threat in the dot-probe task

Attention biases towards threatening stimuli over neutral stimuli have been investigated using a dot-probe task. In this task, a pair of stimuli, such as faces with angry and neutral emotions, appears at different spatial locations on a screen. Immediately following the disappearance of the facial stimuli, a dot emerges as the target at one of the two locations: the location for the previously presented negative stimulus (congruent condition) …