The face of fear: Effects of eye gaze and emotion on visual attention

Visual Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 823-835

  Mathews, Andrew ^a   Fox, Elaine ^b   Yiend, Jenny ^a   Calder, Andy ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0142186736     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280344000095     Document Type: Article

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