The facing bias in biological motion perception: Effects of stimulus gender and observer sex

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1256-1260

  Schouten, Ben ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b   Brooks, Anna ^c   van der Zwan, Rick ^c   Verfaillie, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING; PSYCHOLOGY;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77957676096     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1256     Document Type: Article

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