Hemispheric laterality measured in rembrandt's portraits using pupil diameter and aesthetic verbal judgements

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 868-885

  Powell, W Ryan ^a   Schirillo, James A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic judgements; Emotion; Face perception; Hemispheric laterality; Pupil size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAINTER; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; ESTHETICS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; PUPIL; SEX FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79961225124     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.515709     Document Type: Article

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