Attentional biases for faces and body parts

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-348

  Ro, Tony ^a   Friggel, Ashley ^a   Lavie, Nilli ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY REGIONS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34347257383     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280600590434     Document Type: Article

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