Detection of Emotional Faces Is Modulated by the Direction of Eye Gaze

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1456-1461

  Milders, Maarten ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^b   Leppänen, Jukka M ^b   Braun, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Detection; Facial expressions; Gaze direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANGER; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755219877     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022901     Document Type: Article

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