Anchoring gaze when categorizing faces' sex: Evidence from eye-tracking data

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2870-2880

  Sæther, Line ^a   Belle, Werner Van ^b   Laeng, Bruno ^c   Brennen, Tim ^c   Øvervoll, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Eye fixation; Face perception; Optimal viewing position; Sex categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449534092     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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