The emotion recognition task: A paradigm to measure the perception of facial emotional expressions at different intensities

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 589-598

  Montagne, Barbara ^a   Kessels, Roy P C ^b,e   De Haan, Edward H F ^c   Perrett, David I ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 34249854805     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.104.2.589-598     Document Type: Article

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