Is it in the eyes? Dissociating the role of emotion and perceptual features of emotionally expressive faces in modulating orienting to eye gaze

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 483-510

  Bayless, Sarah J ^a   Glover, Missy ^b   Taylor, Margot J ^c   Itier, Roxane J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional face processing; Eye gaze processing; Social attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79957607068     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.552895     Document Type: Article

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