Visual search for schematic emotional faces risks perceptual confound

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 573-584

  Mak Fan, Kathleen M ^a   Thompson, William F ^b   Green, Robin E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Faces; Facial expression; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EMOTION; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79956081656     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.500159     Document Type: Article

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