Perception of static eye gaze direction facilitates subsequent early visual processing

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1161-1168

  Schuller, Anne Marie ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eye gaze; Selective attention; Visual processing; Visual spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAZE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842559915     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.12.022     Document Type: Article

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