Scanning patterns of faces do not explain impaired emotion recognition in Huntington disease: Evidence for a high level mechanism

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Asselen, Marieke van ^a   Júlio, Filipa ^a,b   Januário, Cristina ^b   Campos, Elzbieta Bobrowicz ^c   Almeida, Inês ^a   Cavaco, Sara ^d   Castelo Branco, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Eye movements; Huntington's disease; Scanning patterns of faces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867049126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00031     Document Type: Article

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