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Premenstrual enhancement of snake detection in visual search in healthy women

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, March 2012
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Title
Premenstrual enhancement of snake detection in visual search in healthy women
Published in
Scientific Reports, March 2012
DOI 10.1038/srep00307
Pubmed ID
Authors

N. Masataka, M. Shibasaki

Abstract

It is well known that adult humans detect images of snakes as targets more quickly than images of flowers as targets whether the images are in color or gray-scale. When such visual searches were performed by a total of 60 adult premenopausal healthy women in the present study to examine whether their performance would fluctuate across the phases of the menstrual cycle, snake detection was found to become temporarily enhanced during the luteal phase as compared to early or late follicular phases. This is the first demonstration of the existence of within-individual variation of the activity of the fear module, as a predictable change in cognitive strength, which appears likely to be due to the hormonal changes that occur in the menstrual cycle of healthy women.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 8%
Germany 2 3%
United Kingdom 2 3%
Switzerland 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Poland 1 2%
Unknown 53 80%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 21%
Researcher 14 21%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Other 5 8%
Other 13 20%
Unknown 6 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 35%
Psychology 22 33%
Neuroscience 5 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 7 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2023.
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#784,606
of 26,557,556 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#8,420
of 147,356 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,475
of 170,383 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#15
of 138 outputs
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