Look into my eyes and I will see you: Unconscious processing of human gaze

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1703-1710

  Chen, Yi Chia ^a   Yeh, Su Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuous flash suppression; Face processing; Gaze direction; Head orientation; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

CUES; EYE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869790790     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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