Social attention orienting integrates visual information from head and body orientation

Psychological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 174-179

  Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a Department of Psychology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Face; Gaze; Reaction time; Social attention; Spatial orienting; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036688340     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-002-0091-8     Document Type: Article

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