The Combined Effect of Gaze Direction and Facial Expression on Cueing Spatial Attention

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 628-634

  Pecchinenda, Anna ^a   Pes, Manuela ^b   Ferlazzo, Fabio ^b   Zoccolotti, Pierluigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

facial expression; gaze direction; social cues; spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849431153     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013437     Document Type: Article

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