Perceptual asymmetries in judgements of facial attractiveness, age, gender, speech and expression

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 685-693

  Burt, D Michael ^a   Perrett, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimaeric; Face hemisphere; Free vision; Lateralization; Lip reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; VISION;

ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; BEAUTY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIPREADING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030968985     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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