Social attention and real-world scenes: The roles of action, competition and social content

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 986-998

  Birmingham, Elina ^a   Bischof, Walter F ^b   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45849137807     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701410375     Document Type: Article

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