The visual system discounts emotional deviants when extracting average expression

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1825-1838

  Haberman, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958455509     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1825     Document Type: Article

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