Eye contact facilitates awareness of faces during interocular suppression

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-311

  Stein, Timo ^a,b   Senju, Atsushi ^c   Peelen, Marius V ^d   Sterzer, Philipp ^a,b,e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Eye contact; Gaze processing; Interocular suppression; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROCULAR TRANSFER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952814679     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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