Walk this way: Approaching bodies can influence the processing of faces

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Pilz, Karin S ^a   Vuong, Quoc C ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^c,d   Thornton, Ian M ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Facial motion; Looming; Person recognition; Sequential matching; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; FACE; MENTAL FUNCTION; VISION;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952783706     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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