Angry faces hold the eyes

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-36

  Belopolsky, Artem V ^a   Devue, Christel ^a,b   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disengagement; Emotion; Facial expressions; Saccades; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULATION; THREAT; VISION;

EID: 78650322288     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.536186     Document Type: Article

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