The contribution of the upper and lower face in happy and sad facial expression classification

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1814-1823

  Chen, Mei Yen ^a   Chen, Chien Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification; Eccentricity; General recognition theory; Holistic processing; Multidimensional signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYE FIXATION; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955550964     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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