Detection of emotional faces: Low perceptual threshold and wide attentional span

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Esteves, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFFECT; AMBIGUITY; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 14844366590     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000094     Document Type: Article

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