How do eye gaze and facial expression interact?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 708-733

  Bindemann, Markus ^a   Burton, A Mike ^a   Langton, Stephen R H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 47249124532     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280701269318     Document Type: Article

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