Human social attention

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue , 2009, Pages 309-320

  Birmingham, Elina ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

attentional selection; cueing paradigm; eye movements; gaze perception; saccades; scene perception; social attention; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN; GAZE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ATTENTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 69549134169     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17618-5     Document Type: Review

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