Learning gaze direction perception - An investigation by behavioral and neurocomputational approaches

Psychologia

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 224-234

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a,c   Ueda, Kazuhlro ^b   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connectionist model; Development; Gaze direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949816660     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2009.224     Document Type: Article

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