Age and emotion affect how we look at a face: Visual scan patterns differ for own-age versus other-age emotional faces

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 983-997

  Ebner, Natalie C ^a   He, Yi ^a   Johnson, Marcia K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences; Emotion; Eye tracking; Faces; Own age effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052440228     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.540817     Document Type: Article

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