Differential attentional guidance by unattended faces expressing positive and negative emotion

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1004-1013

  Eastwood, John D ^a   Smilek, Daniel ^a   Merikle, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035433509     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194519     Document Type: Article

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