Get real! Resolving the debate about equivalent social stimuli

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 904-924

  Birmingham, Elina ^a   Bischof, Walter F ^b   Kingstone, Alan ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional selection; Cuing paradigm; Gaze perception; Scene perception; Social attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STIMULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISION; VISUAL SALIENCE;

EID: 69549151873     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280902758044     Document Type: Article

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