Recognition of facial emotion in low vision: A flexible usage of facial features

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 603-609

  Boucart, Muriel ^a   Dinon, Jean François ^a   Despretz, Pascal ^a   Desmettre, Thomas ^b   Hladiuk, Katrine ^b   Oliva, Aude ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Center d'Imagerie   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face perception; Low vision; Macular degeneration; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION, LOW;

EID: 51049085613     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080656     Document Type: Article

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