Looking just below the eyes is optimal across face recognition tasks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages

  Peterson, Matthew F ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Natural systems analysis; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870353678     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214269109     Document Type: Article

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