Culture shapes how we look at faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Blais, Caroline ^a,b   Jack, Rachael E ^a   Scheepers, Christoph ^a   Fiset, Daniel ^a,b   Caldara, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; EAST ASIAN; EYE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; VISUAL MEMORY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOUTH; NOSE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51549087752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003022     Document Type: Article

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