If you're interested in the subject, here's another related study, which was published in 2010: "And along came a spider: An attentional bias for the detection

If you're interested in the subject, here's another related study, which was published in 2010: "And along came a spider: An attentional bias for the detection of spiders in young children and adults" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096510000652 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096510... "Preschoolers and adults were asked to find the single spider picture among an array of eight mushrooms or cockroaches or the reverse. Both children and adults detected the presence of spiders more rapidly than both categories of distracter stimuli."