Reading faces: Differential lateral gaze bias in processing canine and human facial expressions in dogs and 4-year-old children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Racca, Anaïs ^a   Guo, Kun ^a   Meints, Kerstin ^a   Mills, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DOG; EMOTIONALITY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; FACE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860463099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036076     Document Type: Article

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