Perceptual Grouping, Not Emotion, Accounts for Search Asymmetries With Schematic Faces

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1739-1757

  Becker, Stefanie I ^a,b   Horstmann, Gernot ^b   Remington, Roger W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional faces; Eye movement; Perceptual grouping; Threat capture; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055188686     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024665     Document Type: Article

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