Fast saccades toward faces: Face detection in just 100 ms

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Crouzet, Sébastien M ^a   Kirchner, Holle ^a   Thorpe, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Eye movement; Face detection; Fast visual processing; Saccade; Visual processing time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956410155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.4.16     Document Type: Article

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