The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 513-531

  Hunt, Amelia R ^a   Cooper, Robbie M ^b   Hungr, Clara ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34347239953     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280600843346     Document Type: Article

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