Here Is Looking at You: Emotional Faces Predominate in Binocular Rivalry

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-506

  Alpers, Georg W ^a   Gerdes, Antje B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

binocular rivalry; emotional pictures; facial expression; multistable visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548843377     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.495     Document Type: Article

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