Garner interference reveals dependencies between emotional expression and gaze in face perception

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 296-313

  Graham, Reiko ^a,b   LaBar, Kevin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional expression; Eye gaze; Face perception; Facial affect; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34249097046     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.296     Document Type: Article

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