Start position strongly influences fixation patterns during face processing: Difficulties with eye movements as a measure of information use

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Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Arizpe, Joseph ^a,b   Kravitz, Dwight J ^a   Yovel, Galit ^c   Baker, Chris I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE PROCESSING; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; FACE; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856416472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031106     Document Type: Article

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