Orienting to threat: Faster localization of fearful facial expressions and body postures revealed by saccadic eye movements

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1635-1641

  Bannerman, Rachel L ^a   Milders, Maarten ^a   De Gelder, Beatrice ^b   Sahraie, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Body postures; Emotion; Facial expressions; Saccades

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EYE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ERROR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADULT; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 66349085672     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1744     Document Type: Article

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