Attention to faces: Effects of face inversion

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1659-1666

  Olk, Bettina ^a   Garay Vado, Andrea M ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Face inversion; Gender classification; Perceptual load

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACE INVERSION; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960928911     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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