Of toothy grins and angry snarls-open mouth displays contribute to efficiency gains in search for emotional faces

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Horstmann, Gernot ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^b   Becker, Stefanie I ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Faces; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866257919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.5.7     Document Type: Article

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